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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

(2022)
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History, completed.

'A must-have for history lovers and feminists' –
Glamour

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 . . .

    '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


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