EVENT: 21 June - Sheila Rowbotham - London

Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century

Sheila Rowbotham

Monday 21 June 18.30 - 20.00

The British Library Conference Centre

Sheila Rowbotham’s groundbreaking new history of the early women’s movement, the unsung ‘dreamers and adventurers’, who sensed dramatic social change was possible. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Dreamers of a New Day explores how, struggling to define themselves as individuals, these women overturned norms and assumptions, transforming the conditions of their own lives and those of others.

Pioneering feminist writer and activist Sheila Rowbotham ( University of Manchester ) is the author of many books including the acclaimed Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love and articles for The Guardian, The Times, theIndependent, the New Statesman, and the New York Times.

£6 / £4 concessions  / Conference Centre

Tickets available at http://boxoffice.bl.uk, by calling 01937 546546 (9am-5pm Mon-Fri) or in person at The          

British Library.