MACMILLAN Feminist History for Every Day of the Year.

by Kate Mosse

MACMILLAN Feminist History for Every Day of the Year ABISBOOK MACMILLAN.

Hardcover

About the author

Kate Mosse is an international bestselling author with sales of more than five million copies in 42 languages. Her fiction includes the novels Labyrinth (2005), Sepulchre (2007), The Winter Ghosts (2009), and Citadel (2012), as well as an acclaimed collection of short stories, The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales (2013). Kate’s new novel, The Taxidermist’s Daughter is out now.
Kate is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Prize) and in June 2013, was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature. She lives in Sussex.

Reviews

[Éilis Dockry · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.8 stars. This was a fascinating book highlighting 365 women, non-binary and transgender people, some well-known, others forgotten to history. Each month starts with a short essay highlighting the theme of people in the following month. That was a highlight. A lowlight was how short some of the pieces on these highlighted people were. Some were only a few sentences long, it would have been better if each bio was a page. It gives a snapshot and definitely made me want to look up these extraordinary people and learn more about them. The author definitely makes her favourites clear but I enjoyed the audiobook and was fascinated by the new trailblazers I learned about

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the concept and it’s very informative, but there is at least one error (at least in the audiobook). Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson in Too Kill a Mockingbird, not Boo Radley.

[Taylor · Rating 1 out of 5]

Great idea, but the error of Boo Radley as the man on trial in To Kill a Mockingbird makes me question the accuracy of the other entries.