An incredible true story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe, A Very Dangerous Woman brings her extraordinary world vividly to life with dramatic resonances to rival the most sensational novel. I liked the art and I know more about Emma Goldman’s life than I did before. I feel kind of bad giving this book such a low rating, especially since I think it was well done. Grippingly narrated, this is the first biography of Moura Budberg to use the full range of previously unexamined letters, diaries and documents. Title: A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman Author: Sharon Rudahl Genre: Biography / graphic novel. Through all this she clung to the hope that Lockhart would finally return to her. Wells, Moura later spied for Stalin and for Britain amidst the web of scandal surrounding the Cambridge spies. Fleeing to a life of exile in England and taking a string of new lovers, including Maxim Gorky and H. But when Lockhart’s plot unravelled, she would forsake everything in an attempt to protect him from Lenin’s secret police. Lockhart soon got to know Moura and they began a passionate affair, even though Moura was spying on him for the Bolsheviks.
When Lockhart arrived in Revolutionary Russia in 1918, his official mission was Britain’s envoy to the new Bolshevik government, yet his real assignment was to create a network of agents and plot the downfall of Lenin. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she sacrificed everything for love, only to be betrayed. In 2012, publishing within Purdue Libraries was reorganized in order that staff with skills in this area could also serve the less formal scholarly publishing needs of the Purdue community (e.g., the production of technical reports, conference proceedings, preprint collections, student journals) while still maintaining the Press's reputation for excellence in producing peer-reviewed books and journals in subjects relevant to the University.Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century’s greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness. As the scholarly publishing arm of Purdue University and a unit of Purdue Libraries, the Press is also a partner for university faculty and staff, centers and departments, wishing to disseminate the results of their research. By Sharon Rudahl, Paul Buhle, ISBN: 9781595580641, Paperback. Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences.
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