Homage to Mrs Brater
Rosemary Ashton, 7 August 1986
German Women in the 18th and 19th Centuries: A Social and Literary History
edited by Ruth-Ellen Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes.
Indiana, 356 pp., $29.95, January 1986,0 253 32578 1 Show More
edited by Ruth-Ellen Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes.
Indiana, 356 pp., $29.95, January 1986,
Red Jenny: A Life with Karl Marx
by H.F. Peters.
Allen and Unwin, 182 pp., £12.95, May 1986,0 04 928053 8 Show More
by H.F. Peters.
Allen and Unwin, 182 pp., £12.95, May 1986,
Wives of Fame: Mary Livingstone, Jenny Marx, Emma Darwin
by Edna Healey.
Sidgwick, 210 pp., £12.95, April 1986,0 283 98552 6 Show More
by Edna Healey.
Sidgwick, 210 pp., £12.95, April 1986,
A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
by Sheila Herstein.
Yale, 224 pp., £16.95, January 1986,0 300 03317 6 Show More
by Sheila Herstein.
Yale, 224 pp., £16.95, January 1986,
George Eliot and Blackmail
by Alexander Welsh.
Harvard, 400 pp., £20.50, November 1985,0 674 34872 9 Show More
by Alexander Welsh.
Harvard, 400 pp., £20.50, November 1985,
“... hidden behind a famous husband. Such a woman is Jenny Marx, the subject of a new biography by H.F. Peters and one of the three ‘wives of fame’ dealt with by Edna Healey. The titles of both books indicate the problems they face. While in Wives of Fame Edna Healey claims that Mary Livingstone, Jenny Marx and Emma Darwin ‘deserve to be brought out of the ... ”
