So... some time ago I was going to write a sample chapter and outline for a text book with this title for a crowd aged 7-14 (I think, have to relocate the papers, which I doubt I still have in the first place). My obvious first chapter was going to be queens. Since I had Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and uh... Elizabeth's sister, can't remember her name.
However, the outline was going to be a problem. I have a sample book from the line on Women in the American Revolution (during the era) and so I know the style, but the requirements specifically said they wanted a lot of named historical figures, of all categories. This means I need to talk about women peasants, mniddle class, nobility, foreigners, (just to name a few categories) and need to have some named figures from each of these to talk about. The problem is, I don't even know where to begin looking for named people who aren't nobility in this era. I mean, there's Shakespeare's wife, but we don't know anything about her besides her name and that she was left there.
IF I decide to pursue this (because they just sent me an email seeing if I'm still interested), do any of you have any advice? I remember just dropping it because I didn't feel like I had the time ti figure out a lot of answers, but at this point, the money would be REALLY nice. So I need to have something to show them soon. Any input?