Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son,… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa.… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
