About the Book: Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built
the World
History, completed. 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 physician Doria Shafik, Egyptian poet and womens liberation
leader Cornelia Sorabji, trailblazing Indian womens rights campaigner And as she
researches the lives of these ground-breaking women,