![]() She logs her grievances in her diary, which riffs from Karen Cushman’s 1994 Newbery Medal-winning children’s novel. The 14-year-old daughter of a broke lord (Andrew Scott) and his oft-bedridden wife (Billie Piper), Birdy is mercurial, mulish and emphatically irritated by nearly everyone and everything in her shire. Here comes “Catherine Called Birdy,” a headstrong comedy written for the screen and directed by Lena Dunham, to fill in that silence with a shriek.īirdy, played with zest by Bella Ramsey, storms into the frame baring her teeth and flinging mud pies. ![]() Young women’s stories weren’t recorded - certainly not in their own hand, as literacy was low and paper costs were high - an absence that has prodded later generations to imagine the adolescent of the Middle Ages as demure and obedient, neither seen nor heard. To flip through the pages of a 13th century manuscript, one might believe the medieval era was beleaguered by more snaky dragons and man-murdering bunnies than temperamental tween girls. ![]()
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