Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, the author of several 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 Taxidermists Daughter. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and published in more than forty countries. The Founder Director of the Womens Prize for Fiction, she is the Founder of the global Woman In History 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.

My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired. Its a love letter to the importance of history and about how, without knowing where we come from - truthfully and entirely - we cannot know who we are.Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard womens history. Within these pages, youll meet the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; Warrior Queens and Pirate Commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world and to the home; and the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium. It travels the world from the United States of America to Romania, Chile to Pakistan, Uganda to Germany, Azerbaijan to Iceland and spans all periods of time from Ancient Egypt through to twenty-first century Britain. But it is also a detective story of the authors own family history. We follow Kate as she pursues the lost reputation of her great-grandmother, who has all but disappeared from the record . . .Accessible, ambitious in its scope and fascinating in its detail, it features a diverse and global cast of names -- some unknown and some legendary -- but all deserving of celebration: from conservationist Rachel Carson to British-Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole; Greek naval commander Laskarina Bouboulina to Shirley Chisholm; freedom rider Pauli Murray to Josephine Cochran, inventor of the dishwasher; from Chinese feminist poet Jiang Bingzhi to Truganini; andRussian poet Marina Tsvetaeva and memoirist Nadezhda Mandelstam.Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a beautiful, illustrated book thats both an alternative and eclectic feminist history of the world and a personal memoir about the nature of womens struggles to be heard. It is a book for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made, recorded and preserved.

A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot.