Re: Eleanor Marx

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yvonne Kapp, _Eleanor Marx_ (2 vols), is out of print but is a beautiful

work, providing valuable information on Engels and Marx himself as
well. If you can find a second hand copy it is well worth whatever the
price is.

Eleanor Marx suffered from clinical depression, defined at the time
as a "nervous breakdown." Some comrades on this list apparently
would like us to return to the medieval mental science of the 1990s.

Eleanor Marx may have done much of the work on William Archer's
translation of the plays of Ibsen. (At one time she herself had hoped
to become an actress.) She was one of the founders of the Chaucer
Society in England. The accounts of her and Engels's travels in the
United States are of great interest to anyone interested in the
history of the workers' movement in the U.S.

She was a very great person. The paucity of knowledge of her
on the left indicates something.

Carrol