This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,

which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is Eleanor Marx, a biography by Yvonne Cap, with a preface by Sally Alexander.

Eleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked radical figures in history, usually

overshadowed by her father, Carl.

But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe, and collaborate with her father, she

also led an extraordinary life as a labor organizer, trade unionists, 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 organizing in the

1970s. Cap 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 then, yet at the same time, inescapably, Karl Marx's daughter.

It is also inevitably an unrivaled biography of the Marx's household in Victorian London,

of the Marx Circle, and of Frederick

Ingalls, the family's extraordinary mentor. Eleanor Marks, a biography by Yvonne Cap. Out now from

Verso Books. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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