Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries - Mosse, Kate

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Résumé :

'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand 'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired. It's 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 women's history. Within these pages you'll meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar...

Biographie:
Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Burning Chambers Series, number one bestselling Gothic fiction The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter and the highly-acclaimed memoir An Extra Pair of Hands. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is her second work of non-fiction. 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 #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....

Sommaire:

History, completed.

'A must-have for history lovers and feminists' - Glamour

Moving, illuminating and deeply personal, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is for anyone 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 . . .

'Excellent . . . Bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient Assassin

'A spectacular work of synthesis, scholarship and love' - 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' - Jonathan Phillips, historian and author of The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin