Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries : How Women (Also) Built the World

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries : How Women (Also) Built the WorldAuthor: Mosse, Kate c 1000 CE to c 1500 Published on 30 January 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 432 pages 129 x 197 x 29 294g History, completed. 'A must have for history lovers and feminists' GlamourMoving, 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

Author: Mosse, Kate

c 1000 CE to c 1500

Published on 30 January 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 432 pages
129 x 197 x 29 | 294g

History, completed.

'A must-have for history lovers and feminists' – GlamourMoving, 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 candidateAnd 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 . . .

'Don't miss this' - Natalie Haynes, bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind'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