Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor (1855-98) is one of the most significant figures in the cultural politics of the late nineteenth century. As a feminist and radical socialist she never flinched from confrontation; as an aspiring actress, working journalist and literary translator she advanced contemporary understanding of Flaubert, Ibsen and S

Contents: Introduction, John Stokes; ’A daughter of today’: the socialist-feminist intellectual as woman of letters, Lyn Pykett; Fictions of engagement: Eleanor Marx, biographical space, Carolyn Steedman; Revisiting Edward Aveling, William Greenslade; Eleanor Marx and Henrik Ibsen, Sally Ledger; Eleanor Marx and Shakespeare, Gail Marshall; Eleanor Marx and Gustave Flaubert, Faith Evans; The genders of socialism: Eleanor Marx and Oscar Wilde, Ruth Robbins; Socialist feminism and sexual instinct: Eleanor Marx and Amy Levy, Emma Francis; ’Is this friendship?’: Eleanor Marx, Margaret Harkness and the idea of socialist community, Lynne Hapgood; A moment of being: Miss Marx, Miss Pater, ’Miss Ambient’, Laurel Brake; Radical voices: Eleanor Marx and Victoria Woodhull, Bridget Bennett; ’Tantalising glimpses’: the intersecting lives of Eleanor Marx and Mathilde Blind, Simon Avery; Index.