ISBN: 9780850430103 - gauguin's astonishing grandmother: flora tristan (3 Ergebnisse)

1970 Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 223 pages; Description: 223 p. , 17 plates. Illus. , facsims. , map (on lining papers) , ports. 24 cm. Subjects: Tristan, Flora 1803-1844. Gauguin, Paul 1848-1903. 1 Kg. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Gauguin's Astonishing Grandmother. This is Flora Tristan, the woman Paul Gauguin called his 'astonishing grandmother'. An exciting, turbulent personality, she not only figured in a murder trial (her husband shot her) but was the political precursor of Karl Marx, putting forward in her book L'Union Ouvriere a plan for a world union of workers four years before Marx's famous Manifestor of 1848. In 1833, at the age of 30, she travelled alone to Peru to try to claim an inheritance, encourntering storms, earthquakes, a sea-captain suitor and one of Peru's countless revolutions. It was here, too, that she developed an abiding interest in socal reform. A brilliant writer and spell binding speaker, both in Peru and later in London, where her observations on the social scene are as amusing today as they were pertinent then. Mr. Neilson Gattey's fascinating biography brings the story of this remarkable woman vividly to life and does belated justice to a pioneer hitherto almost unknown in the English speaking world. Illustrated. 223 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

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