Deborah LavinDeborah Lavin (1951-2020) was a poet, a playwright, a keen student of English social history and long-time member of the Socialist History Society (SHS). She curated various programmes of lectures, including The British Business of Slavery, an eight-art series on the slave trade delivered at Conway Hall in 2015. In addition, she gave many lectures herself. Her ground-breaking study, 'Bradlaugh Contra Marx - Radicalism versus Socialism in the First International', was published by the Socialist History Society in 2011.Deborah's plays, bearing mostly on contemporary social and domestic issues, have been performed in the UK and in a number of other countries, including Germany and Japan. Her play Happy Families enjoyed a recent revival in Japan. Another play, The Deadly Incubus, arose from Deborah's interest in the ill-starred partnership of Eleanor Marx and Dr Edward Aveling, which ended with Eleanor's tragic death. In the course of her research and writing for the play, Deborah came across many loose ends and questions which have been neglected for over a century. She was moved to enter upon an exhaustive quest for answers to these questions, the outcome of which is the present book. Read More Read Less