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.
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