A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. From No. 1 bestselling author, Kate Mosse.

History, completed. 'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient Assassin Moving, 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 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 . . . '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

Details

ISBN13: 9781529092233
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 432
Edition:
Publication Date: 01 Jul 2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x13(L)x2.7(W)294
Weight (gm): 294

Author Biography

KATE MOSSE is a multiple New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author with sales of more than eight million copies in thirty-eight languages. Her previous novels include Labyrinth, Sepulchre, The Winter Ghosts, Citadel, The Taxidermist's Daughter, and The Burning Chambers. Kate is the founder director of the Women's Prize for Fiction, a visiting professor at the University of Chichester, and in June 2013, was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature. She divides her time between Chichester in the United Kingdom and Carcassonne in France.

Reviews

Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women -- Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient Assassin
One brilliant woman writing about so many other brilliant women, this is a wonderful treasure chest of women’s lives, full of wit, verve and emotion. Inside these superb pages is a epic, fascinating world of warriors, writers, scientists, queens and more, women who have shaped the world and many who have been overlooked and forgotten. So many lives in so many times and places, interwoven with Kate’s own research into her grandmother, a woman I wish I could have met. A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it -- Professor Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens
Exciting, hugely informative and, at times, shocking, Kate Mosse has cleverly woven close family detective work into 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 and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
A must-have for history lovers and feminists . . . It's personal, detailed and pure joy * Glamour *
Totally fabulous -- Laura Shepherd-Robinson, bestselling author of The Square of Sevens
Don't miss this one! -- Natalie Haynes, bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind
Brilliant -- Daisy Buchanan, author of Pity Party
This book is an inspiration. Make it a gift to your own Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries, and to the men who support them -- Kathryn Mannix, bestselling author of With the End in Mind