Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
How Women (Also) Built the World
$26.93
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2022
Summary
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate’s rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women’s history, and of how and why women’s achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of the world and a personal memoir about the nature of women’s struggles to be heard, about how history is made and by whom.
Split into ten sections, each covering a different category of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529092202 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529092205 |
| Author: | Kate Mosse |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Mantle |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 532g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 36mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
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 … Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it. – Kate Williams, Professor of History at the University of Reading, host of Secrets of the Royal Palaces
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 – Jonathan Phillips, Professor of Crusading History at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of The Life & 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, 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 Limelight and Pity Party
Excellent … bursting with extraordinary women – Anita Anand, journalist and author of The Patient Assassin
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, author of Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations
About The Author
Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, the author of eight 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 Taxidermist’s Daughter. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and published in more than forty countries. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, she is the Founder of the global Women In History campaign.
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