Bee Rowlatt
In Search Of Mary:
The Mother of All Journeys
Friday 15th January, 7.45–8.45pm
The Glapthorn Room, Fletton House,
Fletton Way, Oundle, PE8 4JA

Mary Wollstonecraft is famous as the pioneering
feminist who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of
Women. But she was also an intrepid traveller,
journeying to Scandinavia accompanied
only by her maid and baby daughter. It was
shocking for a gentlewoman to travel without
male protection in the 18th century and the book
she published, Letters Written during a Short
Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark,
became a bestseller and an inspiration for
Romantic writers and poets.

Enter Bee Rowlatt, a married mother of four,
who is suffering from a “mum-life” crisis and
in search of a mission. Having been smitten
by Mary Wollstonecraft’s travel book in her
student days, Bee Rowlatt decides to follow,
with toddler in tow,
in the footsteps of
the world’s first
celebrity feminist.
Bee explores
the vitality of
Mary’s legacy and
retraces the neverdying
themes of
babies versus
careers, comparing
her encounters with
guilt, progress and
inequality in the
eighteenth century to
those experienced by
women today.

From the wild coasts
of Norway to a naked
re-birthing in California, via the blood-soaked
streets of revolutionary Paris, Bee learns
what drove her hero on and what’s been won
and lost over the centuries in the battle for
equality. Bee also discovers the importance
of celebrating the radiant power of love in all
our lives.

In Search of Mary has been featured on
Woman’s Hour, ITV London news, BBC Meet
the Author and in the Guardian and Telegraph
newspapers.

Bee Rowlatt is a writer, journalist and
broadcaster. She is a regular contributor to
The Daily Telegraph and has reported for the
World Service, Newsnight and BBC2. The coauthor
of the best-selling Talking about Jane
Austen in Baghdad (Penguin 2010) as well as
one of the writers featured in Virago’s 2013
anthology Fifty Shades of Feminism, Bee
won the K. Blundell Trust award for In Search
of Mary. She has four children and lives in
London.

£1 off early bird tickets bought before 8th
January from the Oundle Box Office.

Michael Marmot
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an
Unequal World
Friday 5th February 2016, 7.15-8.15pm
St Peter’s Church, Oundle, PE8 4AL
In his ground-breaking book The Health
Gap, one of the world’s leading doctors and
intellectuals, Professor Sir Michael Marmot,
reveals the truth that social injustice is killing
200,000 people in the UK every year. In Britain,
if people of average income or education were
as healthy as the most privileged they would
have an extra eight years of healthy life.
Inequality is damaging the health of all of us.
It is not simply about money and it is not just
the poor who suffer.

Presented for the first time in one cohesive
narrative Sir Michael lays out the evidence
he has gathered over the last 40 years. He
explains how where you are on the socioeconomic
ladder directly affects your health
and life expectancy, and shows we know what
to do to improve health for everyone. The key
is being in control of our lives, living lives that
we value.

The Health Gap
explains why a
focus on lifestyle
and personal
responsibility is
missing the point.

Health can only
be a personal
responsibility if
society’s conditions
allow individuals
to make healthy
choices. Sir
Michael’s evidence
from round the world
shows we need to
change the way we
think about health,
and indeed society,
radically. Creating
fairer societies is the
way we can all live longer in better health.
Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology
and Public Health at UCL, is Director of the
UCL Institute of Health Equity and, a leading
expert on health inequalities both in the UK
and globally. He took up presidency of the
World Medical Association in October 2015
and is currently Harvard’s Lown visiting
professor. He chaired the WHO Commission
on Social Determinants of Health (2005-8), the
recommendations of which have been adopted
by the World Health Assembly and by many
countries. He conducted a review of health
inequalities for the British Government in 2010.
The ‘Marmot Review’ and its recommendations
are now being implemented in three-quarters
of local authorities in England. He previously
published Status Sydrome with Bloomsbury in
2004.

£1 off early bird tickets bought before 29th
January from Oundle Box Office.

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