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Moving, illuminating and deeply personal, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is for anyone who has ever questioned how history is made.
\nIn 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:
\nRachel Carson, mother of the modern environmental movement\nEthel Smyth, unheralded British composer and virtuoso\nAnne Bonny, legendary eighteenth-century pirate and rogue\nPauli Murray, ground-breaking US civil rights activist and lawyer\nSophia Jex-Blake, pioneering nineteenth-century doctor\nDoria Shafik, Egyptian poet and women’s liberation leader\nCornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian women’s rights campaigner\nShirley Chisholm, the first female US presidential candidate\nAnd 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 . . .
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