Light, Alison,  1955- <br/><br/>
A radical romance :  a memoir of love, grief and consolation / 
Alison Light. 
 - xx, 229 pages ;  20 cm 
<br/><br/> Originally published by Fig Tree, 2019. 
<br/><br/>P.B P.B 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0241975352 9780241975350 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC060160  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>019799041  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Light, Alison, 1955- --Family.<br/>Light, Alison, 1955- --Marriage.<br/>Samuel, Raphael.<br/>Light, Alison, 1955- <br/>Samuel, Raphael.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social historians--Great Britain.<br/>Families.<br/>History.<br/>History.<br/>Marriage.<br/>Social historians.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Autobiography<br/>Autobiographies.<br/>Autobiographies.<br/>Autobiographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DA591.L44  / A3 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>941.085092