epub | 11.1 MB | English| Isbn:9781529092219 | Author: Kate Mosse | Year: 2022

Quote: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