Gauguin's Astonishing Grandmother. A Biography Of Flora Tristan by Charles Neilson Gattey

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. This 1970 Femina Hardback is in good condition. DJ; Price clipped. DJ very rubbed; foxing to page edges; old price written in pen on first page.

ISBN: 9780850430103 SKU: 1569049 This image is of the actual book.

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