The Tragic Death Of Eleanor Marx

Author : Tara Bergin
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784103810
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx written by Tara Bergin and published by Carcanet Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017. Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Features the poem 'Bride and Moth', shortlisted for the 2017 Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year Award Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation. When she committed suicide in 1898, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, pioneering sociologist, and translator of Flaubert's Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine, Emma. Both women, in their own ways, died passionate deaths, and Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love, intense grief. With a sing-song rhythm and dark humour, they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers, great writers and great readers who, like the fancy-dressed children in 'Mask', are both 'themselves and strangers'. 'That s all they wanted.'

Author : Rachel Holmes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408843234
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eleanor Marx written by Rachel Holmes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality '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' Sunday Times 'Superb ... The story of this remarkable life is so well told, with a rare combination of pace, verve and scholarship' Jeanette Winterson, Daily Telegraph Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. 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 key political works, and laid the foundations for his biography. But foremost among her achievements was her pioneering feminism. For her, sexual equality was a necessary precondition for a just society. 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 favourite 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 epicentre 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 organising until her untimely end, which – with its letters, legacies, secrets and hidden paternity – reads in part like a novel by Wilkie Collins, and in part like the modern tragedy it was. Rachel Holmes has gone back to original sources to tell the story of the woman who did more than any other to transform British politics in the nineteenth century, who was unafraid to live her contradictions.

Author : Rachel Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620409712
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eleanor Marx written by Rachel Holmes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Rachel Holmes has written a dazzling and original portrait of one of the most remarkable women of the nineteenth century.

Author : Yvonne Kapp
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786635941
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eleanor Marx written by Yvonne Kapp and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked feminist intellectuals in history, usually overshadowed by her father, Karl Marx. But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe and collaborate with her father, she also spent her extraordinary life putting his ideas into practice as a labour organizer, feminist radical, and Marxist theorist. The outstanding exception to the omission of Eleanor Marx from history is Yvonne Kapp's highly acclaimed biography. First published at the height of feminist organizing in the 1970s, Kapp's work brilliantly succeeds in capturing Eleanor's spirit, from a lively child opining on the world's affairs, to the new woman, aspiring to the stage, earning her living as a free intellectual, and helping to lead England's unskilled workers at the height of the new unionism; being always more than, yet at the same time inescapably, Karl Marx's daughter. It is also, inevitably, an unrivalled biography of the Marx household in Victorian London, of the Marx circle, and of Friedrich Engels, the family's extraordinary mentor. During today's resurgence of feminist writing, organizing, and protesting, Kapp's foundational single-volume biography serves as a crucial corrective to a narrative that puts feminists and marxists on opposing sides of radical history.

Author : Mary Gabriel
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031619137X
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Capital written by Mary Gabriel and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. Through it, we see Karl as never before: a devoted father and husband, a prankster who loved a party, a dreadful procrastinator, freeloader, and man of wild enthusiasms-one of which would almost destroy his marriage. Through years of desperate struggle, Jenny's love for Karl would be tested again and again as she waited for him to finish his masterpiece, Capital. An epic narrative that stretches over decades to recount Karl and Jenny's story against the backdrop of Europe's Nineteenth Century, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a surprising and magisterial account of romance and revolution-and of one of the great love stories of all time.

Author : Chūshichi Tsuzuki
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Eleanor Marx, 1855-1898 written by Chūshichi Tsuzuki and published by Oxford, Clarendon P. This book was released on 1967 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : RAW LOUISE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781408188538
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DEATH AND LIFE OF ELEANOR MARX written by RAW LOUISE and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tara Bergin
Publisher : Carcanet
ISBN 13 : 1847772870
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This is Yarrow written by Tara Bergin and published by Carcanet. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Tara Bergin's accomplished debut collection combine sensuous, supple lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairytale and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another, yet share nervous energy, a troubled state of mind: 'I am unwell, little crow, / I am unwell and far from home / where longing lives in my house'. In This is Yarrow Bergin gathers language from a wide range of sources and places to create a music and vision entirely her own.

Author : Eleanor Marx Aveling
Publisher : Lawrence & Wishart
ISBN 13 : 9781912064434
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from England, 1895 written by Eleanor Marx Aveling and published by Lawrence & Wishart. This book was released on 2020 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling Letters from England, 1895, edited and with introductions by Tony Chandler and Stephen Williams, translated from the Russian by Francis King.

Author : John Stokes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315363593
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eleanor Marx (1855–1898) written by John Stokes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor (1855-98) is one of the most significant figures in the cultural politics of the late nineteenth century. As a feminist and radical socialist she never flinched from confrontation; as an aspiring actress, working journalist and literary translator she advanced contemporary understanding of Flaubert, Ibsen and Shakespeare. This collection of newly commissioned essays helps to establish the full extent of her outstanding achievements.