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Author : Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784785911

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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.

Author : Pamela Boone Miller
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595343643

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In the small town of Laurel Grove, nobody ruled like the Knollwoods. Edward Knollwood. The hard-working heir who is used to having everything he wants; can he hold the interest of the love of his life? Charles Knollwood. The married younger son who seeks excitement in the arms of other women; will his sins prove to be fatal? Jane Anderson Knollwood. The plain, older sister, who shocked everyone by marrying Charles Knollwood; what trauma will uncover something hidden deep inside her? Amelia Anderson Knollwood. The pretty sister who lost the man she loved and married the man she needed; what risks will her loneliness and vulnerability drive her to take? Cole Marshall. The self-absorbed and cynical young physician who is new to Laurel Grove; will his lust for Amelia tear apart the Knollwood family and the entire town? Treachery and adultery are woven into the very heart of this dynastic family, threatening to cast the entire town into crisis.

Author : Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784785903

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In a feat of extraordinary archival research Sheila Rowbotham uncovers six little-known women and men whose lives were both dramatic and startlingly radical. Rowbotham tells a story that moves from Bristol, Belfast and Edinburgh to Massachusetts and the wildernesses of California, showing how rebellious ideas were formed and travelled across the Atlantic. Rebel Crossings offers fascinating perspectives on the historical interaction of feminism, socialism, anarchism and on the incipient consciousness of a new sense of self, so vital for women seeking emancipation. Their influences ranged from Unitarianism, High Church Anglicanism, and esoteric spirituality through to Walt Whitman, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Eleanor Marx, Peter Kropotkin, Benjamin Tucker, and Max Stirner. In differing ways they sought to combine the creation of a co-operative society with personal freedom, enhanced perception and loving friendships, experimenting with free love, rational dress, health diets and deep breathing. A work of significant originality in terms of historical scholarship, this book also speaks to the dilemmas of our own times.

Author : Anna Keay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 140884608X

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'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson From the Duff Cooper Prize-winning author of The Restless Republic, a remarkable biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the Restoration era. James, Duke of Monmouth, the favoured illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather Charles I was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father's orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders. Such was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as king. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D'Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade. In The Last Royal Rebel, Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller's gift to enrapturing effect. She paints a vivid portrait of the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission 'lived a very dissolute and irregular life', but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. His story, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping chronicle of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1800858663

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The Atlantic Ocean not only connected North and South America with Europe through trade but also provided the means for an exchange of knowledge and ideas, including political radicalism. Socialists and anarchists would use this “radical ocean” to escape state prosecution in their home countries and establish radical milieus abroad. However, this was often a rather unorganized development and therefore the connections that existed were quite diverse. The movement of individuals led to the establishment of organizational ties and the import and exchange of political publications between Europe and the Americas. The main aim of this book is to show how the transatlantic networks of political radicalism evolved with regard to socialist and anarchist milieus and in particular to look at the actors within the relevant processes—topics that have so far been neglected in the major histories of transnational political radicalism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Individual case studies are examined within a wider context to show how networks were actually created, how they functioned and their impact on the broader history of the radical Atlantic.

Author : Terence O'Reilly
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1856356493

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This book chronicles the life of George Lennon, who fought in the War of Independence, emigrated to America, helped develop the Irish economy, and then became an advocate of peace.