... dinner part in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five remarkable women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous world traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval, Japanese courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel painting, who ... having a family for her career and last but not least Griselda, an obedient wife out of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. However, she is the only fictive character of all the other historica...

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