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BOOK: Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse (Mantle/Pan Macmillan)
Kate Mosse is the award-winning writer of many novels (including the bestselling Languedoc trilogy), story collections and other works. She is the founder director of the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the founder of the global #WomanInHistory campaign, from which her new book surely arises. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is her compendium of women who have shaped the world in both past and present times, including her great-grandmother, Martha Luisa Green (1849-1932).
Mosse says she is not a historian, so the book is "a celebration, not history", a personal collection of the stories of women who inspire or intrigue (or sometimes horrify) her. To kick things off, Mosse tells of her great-grandmother, Martha Luisa Green, known as Lily Watson to her readers, in the first of a series of biographical chapters on Green spread across the book. Like many of the women Mosse goes on to list in the book, Lily and her work have nearly been lost to history because of the lack of proper archiving. As a result, even though Lily was a great novelist, journalist, prolific letter writer, children's writer, author of devotional tracts and poet, not much is known about her or her work today. Mosse uses these "Lily" chapters to introduce her readers to different parts of her great-grandmother's life.
