Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries - by Kate Mosse (Paperback)

About the Book

A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. From No. 1 bestselling author, Kate Mosse.

Book Synopsis

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 . . .

'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

Review Quotes

"Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women" --Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient Assassin

"One brilliant woman writing about so many other brilliant women, this is a wonderful treasure chest of women's lives, full of wit, verve and emotion. Inside these superb pages is a epic, fascinating world of warriors, writers, scientists, queens and more, women who have shaped the world and many who have been overlooked and forgotten. So many lives in so many times and places, interwoven with Kate's own research into her grandmother, a woman I wish I could have met. A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it" --Professor Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens

"Exciting, hugely informative and, at times, shocking, Kate Mosse has cleverly woven close family detective work into 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 and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

"A must-have for history lovers and feminists . . . It's personal, detailed and pure joy" --Glamour

"Totally fabulous" --Laura Shepherd-Robinson, bestselling author of The Square of Sevens

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

"Brilliant" --Daisy Buchanan, author of Pity Party

"This book is an inspiration. Make it a gift to your own Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries, and to the men who support them" --Kathryn Mannix, bestselling author of With the End in Mind

About the Author

Kate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of eleven novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number one bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. The Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, President of the Festival of Chichester, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library.