Eleanor Marx: A Biography

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Eleanor was the youngest of three surviving Marx children. She was the only one to be born, live, love, work and die in England and to become a public figure in her own right. Yvonne Kapp, in this highly acclaimed biography, brilliantly succeeds in capturing Eleanors spirit, from a lively child, opining on the worlds affairs, to the new woman, aspiring to the stage, earning her living as a free intellectual, and helping to lead Englands unskilled workers at the height of the new unionism; being always more than, yet at the same time inescapably, Karl Marxs daughter. And so inevitably and fortunately Eleanors biography is also an unrivalled biography of the Marx household in Victorian London, of the Marx circle, and especially of Friedrich Engels, the familys extraordinary mentor.

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One of the few unquestionable masterpieces of 20th-century biography. * Guardian *
A work of scholarship but also a work of art. -- Michael Foot
A work of vitality and of scholarship. -- E P Thompson
Does full justice to both [public and private]aspects of Eleanor's difficult life. * New York Times *
The 1,000 pages of Eleanor Marx rest onexhaustive and flawless research. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Masterful. -- Tristram Hunt, author of the Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life od Friedrich Engels

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Yvonne Kapp (19031999) was a British writer and political activist.