Product 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
