{"product_id":"warrior-queens-quiet-revolutionaries-how-women-also-built-the-world-9781529092233","title":"Warrior Queens \u0026 Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory, completed. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Patient Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving, illuminating and deeply personal, \u003ci\u003eWarrior Queens \u0026amp; Quiet Revolutionaries\u003c\/i\u003e is for everyone who has ever questioned how history is made.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Rachel Carson, mother of the modern environmental movement\u003cbr\u003e- Ethel Smyth, unheralded British composer and virtuoso\u003cbr\u003e- Anne Bonny, legendary eighteenth-century pirate and rogue\u003cbr\u003e- Pauli Murray, ground-breaking US civil rights activist and lawyer\u003cbr\u003e- Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneering nineteenth-century doctor\u003cbr\u003e- Doria Shafik, Egyptian poet and women's liberation leader\u003cbr\u003e- Cornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian women's rights campaigner\u003cbr\u003e- Shirley Chisholm, the first female US presidential candidate \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd 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 . . .\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A must-have for history lovers and feminists' - \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love' - Professor Kate Williams, historian and author of \u003ci\u003eRival Queens\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003eThe Life \u0026amp; Legend of the Sultan Saladin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Mosse CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of eleven novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number one bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Chambers, The City of Tears\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Ship \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Map of Bones\u003c\/i\u003e), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly acclaimed non-fiction includes \u003ci\u003eAn Extra Pair of Hands\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWarrior Queens \u0026amp; Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World\u003c\/i\u003e. The Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory 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, President of the Festival of Chichester, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pan Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199922176274,"sku":"9781529092233","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f0d9da8-108b-48f0-8786-cf4a819de75c.jpg?v=1744887390","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/warrior-queens-quiet-revolutionaries-how-women-also-built-the-world-9781529092233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}