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.
 
Size: 128mm x 196mm x 25mm
Paperback
No. pages: 432