Overview
History, completed.
'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' – Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient Assassin
Moving, illuminating and deeply personal, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is for everyone 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 . . .
'A must-have for history lovers and feminists' – Glamour
‘A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love’ – Professor 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' – Professor Jonathan Phillips, historian and author of The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin
This book title, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries (How Women (Also) Built the World), ISBN: 9781529092233, by Kate Mosse, published by Pan Macmillan (April 8, 2025) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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