Eleanor Marx : Volume Two / by Yvonne Kapp.

Includes index (pages 739-775).

Includes four seperate appendices. Appendix one concerns Marx and Sedley Taylor. Appendix two is an abridged report of Eleanor Marx's speech on the first May Day, Hyde Park, 4 May 1890. Appendix three concerns Creamation. Appendix four Eleanor Marx on her father.

Includes reference (bibliographic) notes at the end of each part. Reference notes can be found on page 124 (for part 1), page 284 (for part 2), page 415 (for part 3), page 600 (for part 4), page 709 (for part 5).

Includes a list of illustrations on pages 5-7. Contains black and white illustrations and portraits in two different sections. The first section of illustrations can be found between pages 190 and 191. The second set of illustrations can be found between pages 639 and 639. Portraits include black and white illustrations of Eleanor Marx with her husband and various other associates.

Part one : Laborious days -- Part two : Conflicts -- Part three : The crowning years -- Part four : Last lustre of the general -- Part five : The clouded years.

"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. Volume one if this highly acclaimed biography tells Eleanor's story from her birth in 1855 up to and throughout the year of her father's death in 1883. Volume two opens with Eleanor's common-law union with Edward Aveling in 1884 and concludes in 1898 when she committed suicide at the age of forty-three." --from the book jacket

"Anyone interested in Marx, the history of Socialism, women's emancipation or Victorian Britain will find the book difficult to put down... Yvonne Kapp's magnificent and definitive Eleanor Marx [is] one of the major biographies of our generation."-- E.J. Hobsbawm, The New Statesmen

"Eleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked radical figures in history, usually overshadowed by her father, Karl. But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe and collaborate with her father, she also led an extraordinary life as a labour organiser, trade unionist, translator, actor, writer and feminist. Much of this we only know because of this highly acclaimed, outstanding exception to the omission of Eleanor Marx from history. Yvonne Kapp’s biography was first published at the height of feminist organising in the 1970s. Kapp 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. She was 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." --Verso summary

From the library of Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.