{"product_id":"eleanor-marx-9781408852897","title":"Eleanor Marx","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGripping ... Most lives would be overshadowed by such a melodramatic end. But Marx's life was so much more than a murder mystery, as Rachel Holmes's gripping and vividly told biography demonstrates''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuperb ... The story of this remarkable life is so well told, with a rare combination of pace, verve and scholarship''\u003c\/b\u003e Jeanette Winterson, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003eUnrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's \u003ci\u003eMme Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers'' and gas workers' trades unions. For years she worked tirelessly for her father, Karl Marx, as personal secretary and researcher. Later she edited many of his \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuperb ... The story of this remarkable life is so well told, with a rare combination of pace, verve and scholarship, that the reader is soon a daily visitor to the Marx household, with its soot, smoke, books, babies, dinner on the table via the pawnshop, three languages spoken in any combination, and the tiny Eleanor ... I doubt the reader will close this brilliant biography unmoved by this extraordinary woman’s life and untroubled by the inevitable questions it raises about global capitalism now * \u003cb\u003eJeanette Winterson, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eThanks to Holmes’ fresh and vital style – not to mention her endearing partisanship – \u003ci\u003eEleanor Marx: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e reads less like a biography than a 19th century novel. Its close might indeed be modelled on Flaubert’s \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e, translated into English for the first time by Eleanor Marx in 1886 ... The life of one of Britain’s most celebrated intellectuals and activists of the late 19th century came abruptly to an end, to be all but forgotten. Thankfully, however, Holmes has given back to us an unforgettable Eleanor Marx * \u003cb\u003eLisa Jardine, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eIt is the achievement of this biography . . . that it allows us so large and transcendent a view of its subject. [Holmes] succeeds very ably in highlighting the full reach and contemporary relevance of Eleanor Marx's political contribution to socialist and feminist thinking. -- Kate Soper, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, London Metropolitan University * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eI got to the end of Rachel Holmes’s \u003ci\u003eEleanor Marx\u003c\/i\u003e and wanted to start all over again ... At the centre of it all, the irrepressible daughter of Karl and Jenny Marx, the loving sister, passionate lover, actress, political organiser, fiery speaker, translator and intellect. A giant whose character in all its complexity steps off the page to inspire another generation * \u003cb\u003eSusie Orbach\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eGripping ... Most lives would be overshadowed by such a melodramatic end. But Marx’s life was so much more than a murder mystery, as Rachel Holmes’s gripping and vividly told biography demonstrates ... Sympathy for her subject is infectious ... Reading about this generous and far-seeing woman, it is hard not to wish that she \u003ci\u003ehad\u003c\/i\u003e changed the world. How much better would the 20th century have been if it has been Eleanor’s views on the freedom of women that were adopted instead of her father’s communist doctrines * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eGripping ... The story of Eleanor Marx is shot through with the melodrama of the great Victorian novels – a tale of secrets, infidelities, lost letters and legacies, depression, deception and ultimate tragedy * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eRachel Holmes has produced a dazzling account of a woman and her family, an age and a movement, that grips from the first page to the last * \u003cb\u003eGillian Slovo\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eEleanor Marx is both a challenging and a stimulating subject for a biographer. In this widely researched and passionately written book, Rachel Holmes has found an original way of presenting her. She balances Eleanor's political career, centred in the Reading Room of the British Museum among her Victorian Bloomsbury group colleagues, with her sobriquet, the emotional figure of “Tussy”, whose love for Edward Aveling ends in tragedy. It is as if the biographer is conducting string and wind instruments in an orchestra. The result, surprising at first, becomes profoundly satisfying * \u003cb\u003eMichael Holroyd\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes her a biographer’s dream is the style and passion with which she leaped over the barriers of convention ... How Aveling’s betrayals eventually destroyed Tussy provides a heart-rending finale to this enthralling biography. By then, I’d bet that every reader will be as unashamedly in love with Tussy as Rachel Holmes clearly is * \u003cb\u003eFrancis Wheen, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408011469143,"sku":"9781408852897","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408852897.jpg?v=1730501264","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eleanor-marx-9781408852897","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}