Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

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Author: Kate Mosse

Type: Hardback

ISBN: 9781529092196

Date: 13th October, 2022

Publisher: MANTLE

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  2. Biography: General
  3. General And World History
  4. Tracing Ancestors

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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 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 movementEthel Smyth, unheralded British composer and virtuosoAnne Bonny, legendary eighteenth-century pirate and roguePauli Murray, ground-breaking US civil rights activist and lawyerSophia Jex-Blake, pioneering nineteenth-century doctorDoria Shafik, Egyptian poet and women's liberation leaderCornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian women's rights campaignerShirley 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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