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 CBE FRSL is an award-winning novelist, playwright, performer, campaigner, interviewer and non-fiction writer. The author of ten 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 ( Labyrinth , Sepulchre , Citadel ), The Joubert Family Chronicles ( The Burning Chambers , The City of Tears , The Ghost Ship, The Map of Bones ) and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Taxidermist's Daughter and The Winter Ghosts . Her highly-acclaimed non-fiction includes An Extra Pair of Hands: A Story of Caring & Everyday Acts of Love and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World , which inspired her one-woman theatre touring show. A regular guest on radio and television for literature, Kate hosts the pre-show interview series at Chichester Festival Theatre and is a regular interviewer for literary and arts festivals including Letters Live, the Hay Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the British Library and the Royal National Theatre. Her new podcast, The Matilda Effect , will be launched in summer 2024. The Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction the world's largest annual literary awards celebrating writing by woman - she is the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign and has her own monthly YouTube book show, Mosse on a Monday . A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Kate is also an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors, a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester and President of the Festival of Chichester. In the broader arts, Kate is President of the Festival of Chichester, Patron of the Chichester Cathedral Festival of Flowers 2024, Vice-Patron of the Chichester Cathedral Platinum Music Trust and Patron of the Chichester Festival of Music, Dance and Speech. She is also an Ambassador for Parkinsons UK. 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....

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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.

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