Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries 9781529092196 Hardback

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

How Women (Also) Built the World

Kate Mosse (author)

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A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. From No. 1 bestselling author, 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 . . .

'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

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    Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

    Posted by Sara on 12th Oct 2024

    A useful and comprehensive list of a huge number of significant women from across the world and through time.

Authors:
Kate Mosse
Year Published:
2022
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781529092196
Number of Pages:
432
Publication Date:
13/10/2022
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Place of Publication:
London
Language:
English
SKU:
9781529092196
Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Burning Chambers Series, number one bestselling Gothic fiction The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter and the highly-acclaimed memoir An Extra Pair of Hands. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is her second work of non-fiction. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and published in more than forty countries. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, she is the Founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester.
One brilliant woman writing about so many other brilliant women, this is a wonderful treasure chest of women’s lives, full of wit, verve and emotion . . . Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it. -- Kate Williams, Professor of History at the University of Reading, host of Secrets of the Royal Palaces Exciting, hugely informative and, at times, shocking, Kate Mosse has cleverly woven close family detective work into a powerful panorama of the extraordinary achievements of a wonderful cast of women - both famous and hidden - down the millennia -- Jonathan Phillips, Professor of Crusading History at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin A must have for history lovers and feminists . . . It's personal, detailed and pure joy * Glamour * Totally fabulous -- Laura Shepherd-Robinson, author of The Square of Sevens Don't miss this one! -- Natalie Haynes, bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind Brilliant -- Daisy Buchanan, author of Limelight and Pity Party Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women -- Anita Anand, journalist and author of The Patient Assassin This book is an inspiration. Make it a gift to your own Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries, and to the men who support them -- Kathryn Mannix, author of Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations

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