The Clintons appear at the South Bank to launch new book

A First Lady of the SA and Presidential runner up will take to the stage with her daughter to of the USA and her daughter to celebrate the women who have inspired them throughout their lives Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton will appear at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on November 10 as they launch their new book, The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience.

The pair will be joined on stage by writer, broadcaster and professor of classics, Mary Beard to chair the event.

Southbank Centre and publisher Simon & Schuster will donate 300 free tickets to Lambeth State Secondary Schools and Southbank Centre’s Youth Partners.

They will take a seat in the Royal Festival Hall auditorium, which seats 2,700 people and, along with the rest of the audience, will receive a hardback copy of the book.

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience covers portraits of more than 100 women marking histories that have all too often been overlooked or left unwritten including the stories of Mary Edwards Walker, a Civil War surgeon who was arrested more than once for wearing trousers; Rosa May Billinghurst, the suffragette who lost the use of her legs and campaigned in a tricycle for the right of women to vote and Manal al-Sharif, who captured the world’s attention in 2011 when she filmed herself driving a car in defiance of Saudi customs.

With a diverse range of women’s stories from Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist whose Asperger’s syndrome has shaped her work, to Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz, a 17th-century nun and poet whose outspoken views on women’s role in society scandalised audiences.

Hillary Clinton said: “Each of these women has fought and won the kinds of victories that pave the way for progress for all of us.

“To us, they are all gutsy women – leaders with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.

“This book is a continuation of a conversation Chelsea and I have been having since she was a little girl, and we are excited to welcome others into that conversation.”

Chelsea Clinton said: “The gutsy women in this book share a fierce optimism that their work and lives will make a difference in the world. And, they’re right.

“We hope readers will draw strength from their stories as we have, because if history shows one thing, it’s that the world needs more gutsy women.”