A radical romance : a memoir of love, grief and consolation /
Light, Alison, 1955-
A radical romance : a memoir of love, grief and consolation / Alison Light. - xx, 229 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published by Fig Tree, 2019.
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Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. 20 years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left, utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within 10, Raphael would be dead. Theirs was an attraction of opposites - he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe, she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements. She tells of moving into Raphael's cluttered 18th-century house in Spitalfields and into his equally full, unconventional life; of the whirlwind of change outside their door which transformed London's old East End districts; of being widowed at 41, and finding inspiration in her friendship with Raphael's mother.
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Light, Alison, 1955- --Family.
Light, Alison, 1955- --Marriage.
Samuel, Raphael.
Light, Alison, 1955-
Samuel, Raphael.
Social historians--Great Britain.
Families.
History.
History.
Marriage.
Social historians.
Great Britain.
Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
DA591.L44 / A3 2020
941.085092
A radical romance : a memoir of love, grief and consolation / Alison Light. - xx, 229 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published by Fig Tree, 2019.
P.B P.B
Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. 20 years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic figure on the British Left, utterly driven by his work and by a commitment to collective politics. Within a year they were married. Within 10, Raphael would be dead. Theirs was an attraction of opposites - he from a Jewish Communist family with its roots in Russia and Eastern Europe, she from the English working class. In this chronicle of a passionate marriage, Alison Light peels back the layers of their time together, its intimacies and its estrangements. She tells of moving into Raphael's cluttered 18th-century house in Spitalfields and into his equally full, unconventional life; of the whirlwind of change outside their door which transformed London's old East End districts; of being widowed at 41, and finding inspiration in her friendship with Raphael's mother.
0241975352 9780241975350
GBC060160 bnb
019799041 Uk
Light, Alison, 1955- --Family.
Light, Alison, 1955- --Marriage.
Samuel, Raphael.
Light, Alison, 1955-
Samuel, Raphael.
Social historians--Great Britain.
Families.
History.
History.
Marriage.
Social historians.
Great Britain.
Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
DA591.L44 / A3 2020
941.085092