Eleanor Marx: A Life
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408852897
ISBN-10: 1408852896
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: 1 x 16 page B&W plate
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408852896
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: 1 x 16 page B&W plate
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Based on original research and unpublished letters, including correspondence that has only been available since the end of the Cold War
Notă biografică
Rachel Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor, with Lisa Appignanesi and Susie Orbach, of Fifty Shades of Feminism and co-commissioning editor, with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon, of Sixty-Six Books: Twenty-First Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible. She lives in Gloucestershire.
Recenzii
Superb ... 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
Thanks to Holmes' fresh and vital style - not to mention her endearing partisanship - Eleanor Marx: A Life reads less like a biography than a 19th century novel. Its close might indeed be modelled on Flaubert's Madame Bovary, 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
It 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.
I got to the end of Rachel Holmes's Eleanor Marx 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
Gripping ... 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 had 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
Gripping ... 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
Rachel 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
Eleanor 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
What 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
Thanks to Holmes' fresh and vital style - not to mention her endearing partisanship - Eleanor Marx: A Life reads less like a biography than a 19th century novel. Its close might indeed be modelled on Flaubert's Madame Bovary, 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
It 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.
I got to the end of Rachel Holmes's Eleanor Marx 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
Gripping ... 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 had 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
Gripping ... 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
Rachel 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
Eleanor 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
What 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