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 . . .
| ISBN: | 9781529092233 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2025 |
| Author: | Kate Mosse |
| Publisher: | Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 432 pages |
| Primary Genre | History |
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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 . . .
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Gift Books, History, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Gender studies: women and girls, Family history, tracing ancestors, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Stationery and miscellaneous items, History and Archaeology, History: specific events and topics, Gender studies, gender groups, Social groups, communities and identities, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, Local and family history, nostalgia
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries was written by Kate Mosse and published by Pan Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries has 432 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
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