Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Marx, Engels: On Literature and Art. Progress Publishers, 1976.
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Friedrich Engels
Standard Name: Engels, Friedrich
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Harkness | Probably through sisters Kate Potter Courtney
(whose house Harkness often stayed at) and Beatrice Potter (later Webb)
, MH
began to associate with the intellectuals who frequented the Reading Room of the British Museum
... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Harkness | Friedrich Engels
wrote to Margaret Harkness
about her novelA City Girl, which she had submitted to him for commentary: despite some criticism, he called it a small work of art and emphasised his... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Harkness | He criticised it for lacking realism in its presentation of the working class, complaining that she unfairly portrayed the proletariat as a passive mass, incapable to help itself, |
| Literary responses | Margaret Harkness | John Goode
calls Out of Worka sophisticated response to Engels
's critique [of A City Girl]. . . . Its protagonist becomes the register of vividly rendered experiences of the doss house, the... |
| Occupation | Karl Marx | KM
is known as the founder of modern socialist thought. In 1842 he became editor of Neue Rheinische Zeitung (published in Cologne), and expressed his radical political views in the paper until it was... |
| politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
's decision to join the party was brought about by her postwar disillusionment with both the Conservatives and Liberals, and her choice was later confirmed by her readings of Engels
and R. H. Tawney |
| Author summary | Margaret Harkness | MH
wrote late Victorian novels, mostly set in the East End slums of London, that express her political ideas. She was an ardent socialist in the 1880s and 1890s and was also a journalist... |
| Publishing | Margaret Harkness | Her publisher was the notorious firm of Henry Vizetelly
, who was to be jailed the year after this for publishing English translations of Zola
. Vizetelly
arranged for MH
's novel to be translated... |
| Reception | May Kendall | Rowntree's biographer Asa Briggs
credits Kendall's affective writing with bringing Seebohm Rowntree
's The Human Needs of Labourto life; he describes her as someone who always gave loyal and devoted service. qtd. in Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 123 Briggs, Asa. Seebohm Rowntree. Longmans, 1961. 84 |
| Textual Features | Isabella Banks | IB
describes the same industrial, working-class Manchester that novelists like Elizabeth Gaskell
and social investigators like Friedrich Engels
and Dr James P. Kay-Shuttleworth
had already made famous in works such as Gaskell's Mary Barton... |
| Textual Features | Mona Caird | The essays collected here focus on the author's desire for the end of the patriarchal system, Caird, Mona. The Morality of Marriage. George Redway, 1897. 59 |
| Textual Production | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Before publishing novels of her own, ELV
started in the literary field as a translator, largely of texts by writers she was connected to through her revolutionary involvement. Ethel L. Voynich papers, 1928-1948. http://www.findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.music.eadmus.mu010020&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=bioghist. |
Timeline
28 November 1820: Philosopher Friedrich Engels was born in...
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28 November 1820
Philosopher Friedrich Engels
was born in Barmen, Germany.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
129
Late November 1842: Friedrich Engels arrived in Manchester at...
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Late November 1842
Friedrich Engels
arrived in Manchester at his father's behest to study English manufacturing and business practices.
Lucas, John, b. 1937. The Literature of Change. 2nd ed., Harvester Press, 1980.
34, 36-7
15 March 1845: Friedrich Engels dated the preface of The...
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15 March 1845
Friedrich Engels
dated the preface of The Condition of the Working Class in England.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Zlotnick, Susan. Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
65
Engels, Friedrich, and Eric John Hobsbawm. The Condition of the Working Class in England. Granada, 1969.
173, 174
21 February 1848: Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx published...
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21 February 1848
Friedrich Engels
and Karl Marx
published their Manifesto of the Communist Party, often known as the Communist Manifesto.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
319
Nairn, Tom. “History’s Postman”. London Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2006, pp. 11-13.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 February 2011
9 November 1850: Helen MacFarlane's first English translation...
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9 November 1850
Helen MacFarlane
's first English translation of the Communist Manifesto began serialization in Harney
's weekly The Red Republican; it ran until 30 November. It was said to be written by Citizens Charles Marx
4 September 1867: The first volume of Karl Marx's analysis...
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4 September 1867
The first volume of Karl Marx
's analysis of social and economic history, Das Kapital, was published.
Draper, Hal. The Marx-Engels Chronicle: A Day-by-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels’ Life and Activity. Schocken Books, 1985.
138, 239, 286
5 August 1895: Friedrich Engels, philosopher, died in L...
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5 August 1895
Friedrich Engels
, philosopher, died in London.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
129
Texts
Marx, Karl. Das Kapital. Editor Engels, Friedrich, O. Meissner, 1894, 3 vols. in 4.
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. Gedruckt in der Office der "Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter" von J.E. Burghard, 1848.
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Marx, Engels: On Literature and Art. Progress Publishers, 1976.
Engels, Friedrich, and Eric John Hobsbawm. The Condition of the Working Class in England. Granada, 1969.