Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries : How Women (Also) Built the World

Published 30/01/2025 | Paperback / softback,
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History, completed.

‘A must-have for history lovers and feminists’ – GlamourMoving, 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 movementEthel Smyth, unheralded British composer and virtuosoAnne Bonny, legendary eighteenth-century pirate and roguePauli Murray, ground-breaking US civil rights activist and lawyerSophia Jex-Blake, pioneering nineteenth-century doctorDoria Shafik, Egyptian poet and women’s liberation leaderCornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian women’s rights campaignerShirley Chisholm, the first female US presidential candidateAnd 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