Descripción
History, completed.’Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women’ ? Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient AssassinMoving, illuminating and deeply personal, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is for everyone 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 candidateAnd 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 . . .‘A must-have for history lovers and feminists’ ? Glamour?A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love? ? Professor 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’ ? Professor Jonathan Phillips, historian and author of The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin
- Autor/es Mosse, Kate
- ISBN13 9781529092233
- ISBN10 152909223X
- Páginas 432
- Año de Edición 2025
