Sarah Emily Duff

Sheila Rowbotham, 'Meeting Mrs Satan in a Hedged Garden Maze'

‘I have become more and more intrigued by discovering the extent to which information and ideas were transmitted internationally between radicals in the nineteenth century. There is a curious spasm of recognition when an interesting historical figure turns out to have been aware of another who I had assumed to be in an entirely different bag. It is like walking through a hedged garden maze and suddenly bumping into a surprising cluster of ghosts.’