(Though those who recognize her for playing the tough, tiny Lady Mormont in Game of Thrones won’t be surprised to hear that she does medieval spitfires well.) Ramsey hadn’t heard of the novel when the chance to audition came her way, but began devouring it on a lengthy train ride on her way to meet Dunham. " Childhood in Medieval England, c.Ramsey, it turns out, was the perfect fit. Life in a Medieval Village by Frances and Joseph Gies (1990). More infoĮveryday Life in Medieval England by Christopher Dyer (1994). Life in Medieval England by Rupert Willoughby (1997). Nonfiction about life in medieval England: Matilda Bone (2000), about a well-educated girl who becomes the assistant to a bonesetter. The Midwife's Apprentice (1995), about an orphaned girl taken in by a midwife. More about Catherine, Called Birdy at Powell's Books or
(1994 246 pages including an author's note on the history behind the story recommended for ages 12 and up a Newbery Honor Book) Birdy's efforts to discourage her increasingly repellent suitors can only delay the inevitable.
But every medieval girl's fate is to become a wife, if she doesn't become a nun. Birdy does not wish to be married, especially not to any of the unpleasant candidates her father has in mind. She tells of pranks, holidays, daily frustrations like sewing, disasters large (a storm) and small (being forbidden to attend a hanging), and of her father's persistent efforts to find her a husband. Her charm brings the Middle Ages vividly alive and compensates for the lack of a tight storyline. Her elder brother Edward, now a monk, has suggested the diary to help her "grow less childish and more learned." Birdy begins with rebelliously short entries, "I am am bit by fleas and plagued by family." Soon, though, she warms to the project, confiding, "Now my father, the toad, conspires to sell me like a cheese to some lack-wit seeking a wife."īirdy is a witty, clever and spirited heroine. Catherine, Called Birdy is written in the form of a diary kept by fourteen-year-old Catherine (nicknamed Birdy) in the year 1290.
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