Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot.

Informationen zum Autor Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections, her books have been translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries. Fiction includes the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Joubert Family Chronicles (the number one bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears , The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones ), and number one bestselling Gothic fiction. Her highly acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World . The Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, she is also the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is also a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, President of the Festival of Chichester, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors and a Trustee of the British Library. She was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List 2024. Klappentext Bringing together 30 years of activism, Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why women's achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books, this beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative history of the world and a personal memoir about the nature of women's writing, about how history is made and by whom. Split into twelve sections, each covering a different category of women from history, Mosse tells the story of female inventors and philanthropists, to conservationists, authors and campaigners. It is the most accessible narrative non-fiction, with a genuinely diverse, truly global perspective:The book and the Women in History campaign is about celebration. It's about making a contribution in this area where many women and organisations all over the world are already promoting and advocating for women of the past. It's about being inspired, about honouring all the women to whom the world owes so much, it's about putting women back at the centre of history. Zusammenfassung A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. From No. 1 bestselling author, Kate Mosse....

Klappentext

Bringing together 30 years of activism, Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why women's achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books, this beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative history of the world and a personal memoir about the nature of women's writing, about how history is made and by whom.

Split into twelve sections, each covering a different category of women from history, Mosse tells the story of female inventors and philanthropists, to conservationists, authors and campaigners. It is the most accessible narrative non-fiction, with a genuinely diverse, truly global perspective:

The book and the Women in History campaign is about celebration. It's about making a contribution in this area where many women and organisations all over the world are already promoting and advocating for women of the past. It's about being inspired, about honouring all the women to whom the world owes so much, it's about putting women back at the centre of history.

Zusammenfassung
A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. From No. 1 bestselling author, Kate Mosse.