Tristram Hunt

Caught between Marx and a monster

A review of Eleanor Marx, by Rachel Holmes. Forget her shit of a husband and her father Karl and marvel at Eleanor’s own contributions

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx with Jenny, Eleanor and Laura Marx, 1864 [the Bridgeman Art Library]

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