Format:
343 S.
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Kt.
ISBN:
9781925106688
,
9781922247957
,
9781925228267
Content:
Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman who was the longtime lover of Frederick Engels, co-author of The Communist Manifesto. In Gavin McCrea's first novel, she is finally given a voice, one that won't easily be forgotten.Lizzie is a worker in the Manchester, England, cotton mill that Frederick owns. When they move to a posh townhouse in London to be closer to Karl Marx and his family, she must learn to navigate Victorian society. We are privy to Lizzie's intimate, wry, and astute views of Marx and Engels's mission to spur revolution among the working classes, and to. --- Mrs Engels will be the first of a trilogy of communist-themed books: the “wives of the revolution” trilogy.
Note:
Zugl.: Norwich, Univ. of East Anglia, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, Diss., 2013
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781925113792
Additional Edition:
ISBN(falsch)9781925113792
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Engels, Friedrich 1820-1895
;
Geliebte
;
Belletristische Darstellung
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Fiktionale Darstellung
