Yvonne Kapp
Yvonne Helene Kapp (née Mayer) (17 April 1903 – 22 June 1999) was a British writer and political activist. Kapp also wrote under the name Yvonne Cloud.[1]
Biography
Yvonne Hélène Mayer was born on 17 April 1903 at 170 Tulse Hill, London, into a Jewish immigrant family, daughter of prosperous vanilla merchant Max Alfred Mayer (1871–1948) and his wife Clarisse Fanny Bielefeld (1878–1960).[2]
She started work with a brief stint on the
In 1938 she was co-author, with Margaret Mynatt, of British Policy and the Refugees, not published until 1968.
From 1941 to 1947 worked for the Amalgamated Engineering Union as a research officer. Subsequently, she worked for the Medical Research Council, and later as a translator, and writing her magnum opus, a life of Eleanor Marx.[3]
She died on 22 June 1999.
Bibliography
- British Policy and the Refugees, 1968 (with Margaret Mynatt).
- Eleanor Marx, 2 vols, Lawrence & Wishart, 1972–6.
- Time Will Tell, Verso, 2003 (posthumous).
Kapp also co-translated a volume of
- 1983. Short Stories: 1921–1946. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Trans. Yvonne Kapp, Hugh Rorrison and Antony Tatlow. London and New York: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-52890-1.
References
- ^ Clarke, Joseph F. (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 39.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72408. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ ISBN 9780230318946.
External links
- [1] Obituary in The Independent
- "Marxism in vogue". Obituary in Issue 233 of SOCIALIST REVIEW. Published September 1999
- Obituary in The Guardian by Eric Hobsbawm
- Yvonne Kapp Papers in the TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University
- Portraits of Yvonne Kapp at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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