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

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

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

• | Author: Kate Mosse
• | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 13, 2022
• | Number of Pages:
• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781529092202
• | ISBN-10: 1529092205