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Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States Hardcover – October 25, 2016

by Sheila Rowbotham (Author)

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The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century

Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World utopias. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam Daniell, Gertrude Dix, Robert Nicol and William Bailie cross the Atlantic dreaming of liberty and equality. The hope for a new age is captured in the name Miriam and Robert give their love child, born shortly after their arrival: Sunrise. A young Bostonian, Helen Tufts learns of Miriam’s defiant spirit through her close friendship with Helena; the love she feels for Helena and later for William fundamentally alters her life.

All six are part of a wider historical search for self-fulfillment and an alternative to a cruelly competitive capitalism. In articles, poems and allegories Helena, Helen and Miriam resist the cultural constraints women face, while female characters in Gertrude’s novels struggle to combine personal happiness with radical social commitment. William campaigns against class inequality as a socialist and an anarchist while longing to read and study. Robert, the former union militant, becomes preoccupied with personal growth and mystical enlightenment in the wilds of California.

Rebel Crossings offers fascinating perspectives on the historical interaction of feminism, socialism, and anarchism and on the incipient consciousness of a new sense of self, so vital for women seeking emancipation. These six lives bring fresh slants on political and cultural movements and upon influential individuals like Walt Whitman, Eleanor Marx, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Patrick Geddes and Benjamin Tucker. It is a work of significant originality by one of our leading feminist historians and speaks to the dilemmas of our own time.

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“Rebel Crossings contains remarkable tales of courage.”
—Times Higher Education

“An immersive book with a gripping narrative drive and it will make you wonder why stories like this are usually ignored by historians.”
—Fern Riddall, Mail on Sunday

“Miriam and Robert are two of a cast of six fin-de-siècle figures that Sheila Rowbotham has unearthed, all courageous in defying convention and fighting to bring a new world into being. Rowbotham is the right person to tell this story. She has spent her career writing about historical attempts at liberation and has herself become a doyenne of the feminist movement … The stories she has uncovered are timely because the principles they prize are under threat.”
—Lara Feigel, Sunday Telegraph

“Juicy historical gossip for nerds.”
—Lucy Kogler, LitHub

Praise for Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love:

“One of the best political biographies for many years. It is not just a book about the past; it’s bursting with ideas that remain relevant to the future of humanity.”
—Peter Tatchell, Observer (“Books of the Year”)

“This absorbing book opens the whole period of early socialism in Britain. And it reads beautifully.”
—Jeanette Winterson, The Times of London

Praise for Dreamers of a New Day:

“Exhilarating … admirably lucid … Reading about the wild hopes of these early twentieth-century pioneers, you cannot fail to be moved by the sheer exuberance of their imaginations.”
—Kathryn Hughes, Guardian

“Ambitious and eloquent … Rowbotham has a marvellous gift for explication and an eye for the illuminating quotation.”
—Elaine Showalter, Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women’s liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties;Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; and the biography Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography. Her poetry and two plays have been published and she has written for newspapers and journals in Britain, the US, Italy, Brazil, Turkey, Sweden and Sri Lanka. An Honorary Fellow of Manchester University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she lives in Bristol.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: Verso (October 25, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1784785881
ISBN-13: 978-1784785888
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.7 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #235,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #54 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Women in Politics
- #74 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Ideologies & Doctrines > Anarchism
- #199 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Ideologies & Doctrines > Radicalism

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