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Deborah Lavin
Deborah Lavin (1951-2020) was a poet, a playwright, and a writer and speaker on English social history. She curated numerous series of lectures, including 'The British Business of ...view moreDeborah Lavin (1951-2020) was a poet, a playwright, and a writer and speaker on English social history. She curated numerous series of lectures, including 'The British Business of Slavery', an eight-part series on the slave trade delivered at Conway Hall, London, in 2015. Her ground-breaking study, 'Bradlaugh Contra Marx – Radicalism versus Socialism in the First International', was published by the Socialist History Society, of which she was a member, in 2011.
Deborah’s plays, bearing mostly on contemporary social and domestic issues, have been performed in the British Isles 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 partnership of Eleanor Marx and Dr Edward Aveling, which ended with Eleanor's death. In the course of her research and writing for this play, Deborah came across many loose ends and unanswered questions. Deborah decided that a more exhaustive examination was needed, the outcome of which is the present book.view less