Moving, illuminating and deeply personal, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is for anyone who has ever questioned how history is made.

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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:

\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\n

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 . . .

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