Mary Gabriel
3.98 of 5 Votes: 4
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4.14 of 5 Votes: 5
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review 1: Read 40%, which I feel is enough. There's much less about Karl and Jenny's relationship here than I think I was led to expect, probably because there's not just a whole lot of surviving source material. Jenny comes off as entirely saintly, and the reader will be impressed that sh...
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review 1: Absolutely fascinating. I was completely sucked into this human portrait of Karl, Jenny, Friedrich (Engels), and their wider family -- whether biologically related or not. Drawing from extensively archived personal letters, Gabriel manages to give a very detailed and intimate loo...