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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
- How Women (Also) Built the World
- Narrated by: Jade Anouka, Kate Mosse
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
“My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired. It’s a love letter to the importance of history and about how, without knowing where we come from - truthfully and entirely - we cannot know who we are.”
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women’s history. Within these pages you’ll meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; 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; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium.
It is global, travelling the world and spanning all periods of time. It is also an intensely moving detective story of the author’s own family history as Kate Mosse pieces together the forgotten life of her great-grandmother, Lily Watson, a famous and highly-successful novelist in her day who has all but disappeared from the record . . .
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is accessible, ambitious in its scope and fascinating in its detail. A beautiful dictionary of women, it is a love letter to family history and a personal memoir about the nature of women’s struggles to be heard and their achievements acknowledged. Joyous, celebratory and engaging, it is a book for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-04-23
This compendium is crammed full of jaw-dropping moments of discovery and insight.
Listening to Kate read her seminal work is akin to sitting in a favourite room with your favourite teacher. Warrior Queens provides us with a rich archive for future reference.
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- therealheidi
- 10-03-23
Outstanding!
Such a positive feminist text! Using information, research and positivity as a tool to highlight inequality through the ages and it's relevance today. Kate is a public figure who using her white, middle class, western privilege to educate and inform. ❤️
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- PPG
- 29-12-22
Fascinating
Exceptional characters of history, many of whom are lost because men write the books and kept them out or took credit for the women’s accomplishments.
Kate Mosse is a fabulous author
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- Mrs S A Mavin
- 30-06-24
Amazing
i enjoyed all of this book. All the facts about amazing women and Lily's story. I will definitely get a text copy of this book to give to my granddaughter.
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- Catriona Ferris
- 18-02-24
Loved it and a gift for Quiet Revolutionaries
It takes a bit of getting used to with the very short chapters but once you are in the flow you will love it. Amazing level of detail in this historical account of women and their impact in society.
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- Ladyreviewer
- 01-08-23
Bit disappointing
I was excited to get this book and found myself disappointed.
To listen to (maybe it's different if you read it), in the main it felt like a shopping list of female authors and I kept switching off.
I found the story of the authors great grandmother or whatever she was rather self indulgent and boring (sorry).
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- Miss C m Harker
- 02-01-24
Feminism at its most boring
I really wanted to like this, and perhaps even revel in a bit of feminism, but honestly it was a real
Slog to listen to. List of names and short stories about women’s lives which I just didn’t feel connected to in any way, lead to me giving up after only a few chapters. Disappointed that I wasted an Audible credit…
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