num_pages: 319
description: 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 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 Marx's daughter. So inevitablyand fortunatelyEleanor's biography is also an unrivalled biography of the Marx household in Victorian London of the Marx circle and especially of Frederick Engels the family's extraordinary mentor.
language: English
title: Eleanor Marx, Vol. I: Family Life, 1855-1883
publisher:  Lawrence & Wishart Ltd