Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

How Women (Also) Built the World

By: Kate Mosse

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Paperback | 1 July 2025

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288 Pages

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History, completed. 'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient Assassin 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 . . . 'A must-have for history lovers and feminists' - Glamour 'A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love' - Professor 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' - Professor Jonathan Phillips, historian and author of The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin

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