Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

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 movementEthel Smyth, unheralded British composer and virtuosoPauli Murray, pioneering US civil rights activist and lawyerJean Batten, record-breaking New Zealand aviatorDoria Shafik, Egyptian poet and women''s liberation leaderCornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian women''s rights campaignerAnne Bonny, legendary eighteenth-century pirate and rogue And as she researches the lives of these ground-breaking women, she embarks on a detective story to uncover a forgotten superstar, reflecting the desire of so many people to trace their family''s past . . . ''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