The Daughters Of Karl Marx: Family Correspondence 1866-1898
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the towering legacy of one of history's most influential political thinkers lived three remarkable women — Jenny, Laura, and Eleanor Marx — whose lives, loves, and intellectual passions are vividly brought to life in The Daughters of Karl Marx: Family Correspondence 1866-1898. This extraordinary collection of letters chronicles the personal and political worlds of the Marx daughters across three decades, offering an intimate window into a household steeped in radical thought, financial hardship, and fierce idealism. Written in the daughters' own words, the correspondence uncovers their complex relationships with their father, their husbands and lovers, and the wider socialist movement that shaped 19th-century Europe. Far more than a biographical curiosity, this volume stands as a remarkable primary source that illuminates the intersection of domestic life and revolutionary politics in Victorian Europe. The letters reveal women of fierce intelligence and conviction — women who translated, campaigned, and agitated in their own right — while also bearing the profound personal costs of their convictions. Edited with scholarly care and accompanied by a richly detailed commentary, The Daughters of Karl Marx presents a deeply human portrait of a family living at the very heart of history, leaving the reader to wonder how much of the world as we know it was shaped in those private, passionate exchanges.
Author: Olga Meier
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the towering legacy of one of history's most influential political thinkers lived three remarkable women — Jenny, Laura, and Eleanor Marx — whose lives, loves, and intellectual passions are vividly brought to life in The Daughters of Karl Marx: Family Correspondence 1866-1898. This extraordinary collection of letters chronicles the personal and political worlds of the Marx daughters across three decades, offering an intimate window into a household steeped in radical thought, financial hardship, and fierce idealism. Written in the daughters' own words, the correspondence uncovers their complex relationships with their father, their husbands and lovers, and the wider socialist movement that shaped 19th-century Europe. Far more than a biographical curiosity, this volume stands as a remarkable primary source that illuminates the intersection of domestic life and revolutionary politics in Victorian Europe. The letters reveal women of fierce intelligence and conviction — women who translated, campaigned, and agitated in their own right — while also bearing the profound personal costs of their convictions. Edited with scholarly care and accompanied by a richly detailed commentary, The Daughters of Karl Marx presents a deeply human portrait of a family living at the very heart of history, leaving the reader to wonder how much of the world as we know it was shaped in those private, passionate exchanges.