Opis: Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries - Kate Mosse

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 . . .

Szczegóły: Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries - Kate Mosse

Tytuł: Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
Autor: Kate Mosse
Wydawnictwo: PAN Books
ISBN: 9781529092233
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2025
Ilość stron: 418
Format: 13.0x19.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.295 kg

Recenzje: Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries - Kate Mosse