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