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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
How Women (Also) Built the World
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This book is ideal for readers interested in feminist history, women's achievements, and accessible narrative non-fiction. It will appeal to historians, feminists, and anyone curious about the hidden stories of pioneering women across global cultures and epochs.
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See moreA journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. From No. 1 bestselling author, Kate Mosse.
A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why women's achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautifully illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of the world and a personal memoir about the nature of women's struggles to be heard, about how history is made and by whom.
Split into ten sections, each covering a different category of women's achievements in history, Kate Mosse tells the stories of female inventors and scientists, philanthropists and conservationists, authors and campaigners. It is the most accessible narrative non-fiction with a genuinely diverse, truly global perspective featuring names such as Sophie Scholl, Mary Seacole, Cornelia Sorabji, Helen Suzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Violette Szabo.
In deeply personal passages, Kate writes about the life of her great-grandmother, Lily Watson, where she turns detective to find out why she has all but disappeared from the record.
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Praised for its wit, emotion and gripping storytelling, the book has been described as "epic" and "unputdownable" by Professor Kate Williams. Jonathan Phillips highlights its informative and powerful narrative combining family detective work with the extraordinary lives of women throughout history. It has been called a "must have for history lovers and feminists," "totally fabulous," and "brilliant" by various authors and critics.
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ISBN: 9781529092202
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 October 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Mantle
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 36.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 532g
Pages: 432
About the Author
Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, the author of eight novels and short-story collections, including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Burning Chambers Series and number one bestselling Gothic fiction The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and published in more than forty countries. The Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction, she is the Founder of the global Women In History campaign.
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