Time Will Tell: Memoirs (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781859845103)

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.

Author: Yvonne Kapp
ISBN-10: 185984510X
ISBN-13: 9781859845103
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2003
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2003 pg. 96