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Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries : how women (also) built the world / Kate Mosse.

by Mosse, Kate, 1961-

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9781529092196 (hc.)

xiii, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, the author of eight novels and short-story collections, including the multimillion-selling 'Languedoc Trilogy,' 'The Burning Chambers' series and number one bestselling Gothic fiction 'The Winter Ghosts' and 'The Taxidermist’s Daughter.' Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and published in more than forty countries. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, she is the Founder of the global Women In History campaign.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-408) and index.

Meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the mothers of invention; warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed in to defend their families, their culture and their countries; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium.

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