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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 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 . . . '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
Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of numerous 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 also the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is also 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. She was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List 2024.
