This is not a book about Marx. Rather, it is an investigation of the women seen in his portraits and the women in his life. Feminist antennas twitch to tell a different tale about the women of Marxian heritage. Author Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher traces the untold stories of Jenny Marx, Eleanor Marx, Laura Marx, and others, upturning the picture we have of the early days of modern communism.

Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher is editor-in-chief of Liberté: Art and Politics magazine. She has worked as an editor at both Remue-ménage and Écosociété, with a focus on environmental, anti-capitalist, and feminist work. In addition to having collaborated with numerous collectives, blogs, and magazines, she co-edited the book Faire Partie du Monde and published Procès Verbal. She lives in Montréal, Québec.

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Melissa Bull is a writer, editor and translator based in Montreal. Her writing has been featured in Event, Matrix, Lemon Hound, Broken Pencil, The Montreal Review of Books, Playboy, and Maisonneuve. She has translated such authors as Nelly Arcan, Kim Thuy, Évelyne de la Chenlière, Raymond Bock, Alexandre Soublière, and Maude Smith Gagnon for various publications. Melissa has a BA in Creative Writing from Concordia University and is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. She is the 2013 winner of CBC’s Hyperlocal Award, and her first collection of poetry, Rue, was published in 2015.

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