Rebel crossings : new women, free lovers, and radicals in Britain and America / Sheila Rowbotham.

Title on dustjacket: Rebel crossings : new women, free lovers, and radicals in Britain and the United States

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2016.

ix, 502 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Radical endeavour: Helena Born -- Subversive intimations: Miriam Daniell -- Awakenings: Robert Allan Nicol -- Exaltation: Autumn 1889 -- Seekers: 1890 -- New bearings: America 1890-1894 -- 'Knotty Points': William Bailie -- Wanderers: 1892-1894 -- Revolutionary lineages: Helen Tufts -- Whitmanites and new women: 1894-1897 -- Fabianism and free love: Gertrude Dix -- Cosmic vibrations: 1894-1897 -- Love, pure food and the market: 1897-1899 -- Family ructions and political exploration: 1900 -- 'Separation': 1901-1902 -- 'Clues and meanings': 1898-1902 -- A new beginning: 1901-1902 -- Romancing the West: 1902-1908 -- Bundles of contradictions: 1903-1907 -- Political reorientation and a new arrival: 1907-1914 -- Elusive realities: 1908-1914 -- Loose endings.