Eleanor Marx : a life

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Label

Eleanor Marx : a life

Title remainder

a life

Statement of responsibility

Rachel Holmes

Creator

• trueHolmes, Rachel

Author

• trueHolmes, Rachel

Subject

• Women socialists -- Great Britain -- Biography
• trueWomen social advocates
• trueWomen socialists
• trueSocialists -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Aveling, Eleanor Marx, 1855-1898
• trueFeminists

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

"Unrestrained by convention, lionhearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary. She pioneered the theater of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trade unions. For years she worked tirelessly for her father, Karl Marx, as personal secretary and researcher. Later, she edited many of his key political works and laid the foundations for his biography. But foremost among her achievements was her pioneering feminism. For her, gender equality was a necessary precondition for a just society, and she crusaded for this in Britain and on a celebrated tour across America in 1886. Drawing strength from her family and their wide circle, including Friedrich Engels and Wilhelm Liebknecht, Eleanor Marx set out into the world to make a difference. Her favorite motto: 'Go ahead!' With her closest friends--among them Olive Schreiner, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, Will Thorne, and William Morris--she was at the epicenter of British socialism. She was also the only Marx to claim her Jewishness. But her life contained a deep sadness: She loved a faithless and dishonest man, the academic, actor, and would-be playwright Edward Aveling. Yet despite the unhappiness he brought her, Eleanor Marx never wavered in her political life, ceaselessly campaigning and organizing until her untimely end."--Publisher description

Writing style

• trueEngaging

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

• 355.4092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography