Flora Tristan (1803-44) was a leading nineteenth-century French social theorist and author who influenced the likes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Five years before the publication of "The Communist Manifesto", Tristan urged French workers to put aside occupational and social rivalries in order [...]

This innovative study by Maire Fedelma Cross analyses Flora Tristan's correspondence with militant republicans, socialists and democrats active in the July Monarchy. It examines the role of the letter in fostering links at a time of a significant growth of literacy and search for citizenship by the [...]