The first title issued in the Red Antigone Series, this ie the first biography of Helen Macfarlane (1818-60), Scottish-born feminist philosopher and shooting star of late-Chartist journalism. A biographical introduction to The Complete Annotated Works of Helen Macfarlane and her Translation of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, as published in the Chartist periodicals, The Democrat Review of British and Foreign Politics, History and Literature, the Red Republican, the Friend of the People, and Reynolds News. The story of her life is a also a family saga: of lost and found riches, love, conflict and adventure; as well as a dramatic presonal history of political commitment inspired by the 1848 Revolutions and by the ideas of Marx, who praised her as an 'original' and a 'rara avis'.
