Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

ebook How Women (Also) Built the World

By Kate Mosse

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History, completed.
'A must-have for history lovers and feminists' – Glamour

Moving, illuminating and deeply personal, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is for anyone who has ever questioned how history is made.
In this alternative and inspiring history, Kate Mosse shines a light on nearly 1,000 women from across the globe whose names and achievements deserve to be celebrated, not forgotten:

  • Rachel Carson, mother of the modern environmental movement
  • Ethel Smyth, unheralded British composer and virtuoso
  • Anne Bonny, legendary eighteenth-century pirate and rogue
  • Pauli Murray, ground-breaking US civil rights activist and lawyer
  • Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneering nineteenth-century doctor
  • Doria Shafik, Egyptian poet and women's liberation leader
  • Cornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian women's rights campaigner
  • Shirley Chisholm, the first female US presidential candidate

  • And as she researches the lives of these ground-breaking women, Kate embarks on a detective story to uncover a forgotten literary superstar in her own family, reflecting the desire of so many people to trace their own roots . . .
    'Don't miss this' - Natalie Haynes, bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind
    'Excellent . . . Bursting with extraordinary women' – Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient Assassin
    'A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love' – Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens
    'A powerful panorama of the extraordinary achievements of a wonderful cast of women - both famous and hidden - down the millennia' – Jonathan Phillips, historian and author of The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin

    Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries