Eleanor Marx: Volume One & Volume Two
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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Few lives in the history of the radical left are as compelling, as tragic, or as rich with contradiction as that of Eleanor Marx — the youngest and most devoted daughter of Karl Marx — whose story Yvonne Kapp chronicles across two definitive volumes with extraordinary depth and scholarly rigour. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Victorian London and the burgeoning international socialist movement, Eleanor Marx traces the arc of a woman who was, in her own right, a formidable political activist, gifted translator, pioneering trade union organiser, and passionate advocate for women's emancipation, all while living in the long shadow of her father's towering intellectual legacy. Kapp's biography is a masterwork of 20th-century life-writing, distinguished by meticulous archival research and a prose style that is both authoritative and deeply humane. She presents Eleanor not merely as a satellite of Marxist history but as a central force in shaping the British labour movement, illuminating the profound personal costs — her tortured relationship with the playwright Edward Aveling chief among them — that accompanied a life lived entirely in service of a cause. For anyone seeking to understand the true human engine behind socialist thought and its translation into political action, these two volumes pose a question that lingers long after the final page: how much of a movement is built on the sacrifice of those history forgets to name?
Author: Yvonne Kapp
Format: Paperback
Published: 1972, Pantheon Books
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few lives in the history of the radical left are as compelling, as tragic, or as rich with contradiction as that of Eleanor Marx — the youngest and most devoted daughter of Karl Marx — whose story Yvonne Kapp chronicles across two definitive volumes with extraordinary depth and scholarly rigour. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Victorian London and the burgeoning international socialist movement, Eleanor Marx traces the arc of a woman who was, in her own right, a formidable political activist, gifted translator, pioneering trade union organiser, and passionate advocate for women's emancipation, all while living in the long shadow of her father's towering intellectual legacy. Kapp's biography is a masterwork of 20th-century life-writing, distinguished by meticulous archival research and a prose style that is both authoritative and deeply humane. She presents Eleanor not merely as a satellite of Marxist history but as a central force in shaping the British labour movement, illuminating the profound personal costs — her tortured relationship with the playwright Edward Aveling chief among them — that accompanied a life lived entirely in service of a cause. For anyone seeking to understand the true human engine behind socialist thought and its translation into political action, these two volumes pose a question that lingers long after the final page: how much of a movement is built on the sacrifice of those history forgets to name?