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Yvonne Kapp (1903–1999)

Auteur de Eleanor Marx: A Biography

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Yvonne Kapp was born Yvonne Mayer in 1903. She worked as, among other things, a writer, translator, aid worker and political activist, and is the author of the acclaimed biography Eleanor Marx. She died in 1999

Comprend les noms: Yvonne Cloud, Yvonne Mayer Kapp

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Nom canonique
Kapp, Yvonne
Autres noms
Cloud, Yvonne
Mayer, Yvonne Helene
Date de naissance
1903-04-17
Date de décès
1999-06-22
Sexe
female
Nationalité
UK
Pays (pour la carte)
UK
Lieu de naissance
London, England
Lieu du décès
London, England
Lieux de résidence
London
Professions
biographer
speechwriter
freelance journalist
translator
novelist
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Yvonne Kapp, née Mayer, was born in London to a middle-class German-Jewish family. She went to work at the age of 18. In 1922, she married Edmond Kapp, an artist and musician considerably older than herself, with whom she had a daughter. They lived the life of bohemians of the 1920s, moving between an apartment in London and the houses of friends in England, the Italian Riviera, and Capri. Yvonne supported the family with her freelance journalism, and worked in 1927 as the literary editor of Paris Vogue. In addition to a number of nonfiction works, she also published four novels under the name of Yvonne Cloud, including Nobody Asked You (1932) and By The Houses In Between (1938). She became a Communist in 1936, following the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany, and worked with German and Spanish refugees in the UK. In 1938, she was appointed Assistant to the Director of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia. She became a speechwriter for Jack Tanner, president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), and then worked as an editor and translator. Her translations include works by Ilya Ehrenburg, Paul Lechat, and Bertolt Brecht. She learned about Eleanor Marx while working on some correspondence between Frederick Engels and Laura Lafargue. Her two-volume work entitled Eleanor Marx (1972 and 1976), 10 years in the making, is considered a masterpiece of 20th-century biography.

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Yvonne Kapp, best known today for her biography of Eleanor Marx, was a remarkable woman whose life spanned virtually the entire twentieth century. Time Will Tell charts her life: 'enfant terrible' in London, the literary editor of Vogue in France in the late 1920s, work for anti-fascist refugee committees in 1930s' London, research for the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the British Medical Research Council, then, in her later years, work as a translator and a biographer. Kapp is a gifted writer on the details of family life and a fine recorder of shifting political and cultural patterns. Accounts of the many encounters she had with various important figures--Quentin Bell, Rebecca West, Paul Robeson, John Heartfield, Melanie Klein and Herbert Morrison, to name only a few--are expertly woven into the fascinating story of her own life. This is the autobiography of a woman who took issue with the dominant political movements of her age, with Fascism and with Communism, while at the same time reflecting on the changing cultural and political climate in Britain during her lifetime.… (plus d'informations)
 
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ISBN
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