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 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 . . .