Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries (häftad, eng)

A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. '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 . . .Epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it - Professor Kate WilliamsMy 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; warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium.It is global, travelling the world and spanning all periods of time. It is also an intensely moving detective story of the author s own family history as Kate Mosse pieces together the forgotten life of her great-grandmother, Lily Watson, a famous and highly-successful novelist in her day who has all but disappeared from the record . ..Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is accessible, ambitious in its scope and fascinating in its detail. A beautifully illustrated dictionary of women, it is a love letter to family history and a personal memoir about the nature of women s struggles to be heard and their achievements acknowledged. Joyous, celebratory and engaging, it is a book for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made.   Format Häftad Omfång 418 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Pan Books Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2022-10-13 ISBN 9781529092202