" Rebel Crossings contains remarkable tales of courage." -- Times Higher Education "Like the radicals of the sixties who shaped Rowbotham, the subjects of her new book connected their political action to their pursuit of personal transformation and spiritualism . Rebel Crossings . is animated by this idea, as essential now as ever, that socialism and feminism are inseparable." --Laura Tanenbaum, New Republic "Rowbotham is a leading feminist historian, and an unapologetic utopian . Rebel Crossings is crammed with hopeful visions from the past." --Barbara Taylor, Guardian "Clear and even stylish." --Sara Wheeler, Times Literary Supplement "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, S unday Telegraph "Rowbotham gives us a unique flavour of the era and insight into the bravery, boldness, imagination and occasional wackiness of a period in left-wing British and American history. a first-rate piece of social history, a well-paced and extraordinarily well-organised narrative." --Melissa Benn, New Statesman "[A] monumental work of research . [Rowbotham] follows the lives and loves and the endlessly mutating politics and enthusiasms of four women and two men who sought a utopian way of life.
" --Jane Miller, In These Times " Rebel Crossings approaches this subject of what we might call radical overlap by way of fascinating, free spirited individuals, often personally lost in the need to make a living and make a meaningful life for themselves . If they exert no memorable political effect and would be lost to history without the staggering archival work of Rowbotham, still, they have a lot to tell us . Rowbotham has entered their lives almost as if they were her contemporaries, the political and cultural dreamers of the 1960s-70s, generations later still sure something far better could be worked out, as much personally as politically." --Paul Buhle "This is a story of individuals involved in the anarchist movement, tied together by love, friendship and politics . [A] very human work about what it means to be human. Sheila Rowbotham has created a wonderful text that is at the very least a unique history, a fascinating romance, and a travelogue." --Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch "Juicy historical gossip for nerds." --Lucy Kogler, LitHub "An example of meticulous research in resurrecting forgotten lives.
" -- Choice "Like the best fiction, it is the sweeping narrative of sympathetic characters and noble acts that makes us want to keep on reading. Rebel Crossings is epic-like in its intimate portrait of individuals who went against the grains of their times . Rowbotham has succeeded in the daunting task of making sense of lives lived in the gaps of history." --Nancy Berke, Socialism and Democracy.