A woman named Edith : émigré, photographer and secret agent : the extraordinary life of Edith Tudor Hart / Daria Santini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santini, Daria, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tudor-Hart, Edith, 1908-1973.

Tudor-Hart, Edith.

Spies--Austria--Biography.

Spies.

Women photographers--Austria--Biography.

Women photographers.

Austria.

Genre:

Biographies

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A major new biography of Edith Tudor Hart, the photographer and Soviet agent who recruited Kim Philby Edith Tudor Hart has long evaded biographers. A Jewish-Austrian exile in 1930s London, she was a talented professional photographer, anti-fascist activist â€" and Soviet secret agent. Daria Santini provides the first full biography of this elusive figure. She traces Tudor Hart’s life from her early years in the socialist intellectual circles of Vienna, through her training at the Bauhaus to her work as a Soviet agent in Britain. Tudor Hart played a vital role in the Cambridge Spies network, including recruiting Kim Philby. Throughout her life, Tudor Hart was deeply committed to the ideals of communism. But despite being watched by the British Secret Service for decades, she was never caught and never confessed. In this moving account, Santini pieces together the story of Edith’s life, revealing a woman of great energy, determination and creativity.

Contents:

Vienna, 1908-29: socialist dreams at the end of empire

London, 1930-1: 'mrs hart' in paddington

Vienna, 1931-3: working for TASS

London and the rhondda valley, 1934: enter Kim Philby

London, 1935-6: art, politics and motherhood

London, 1937-8: war in spain intensifies, war with germany looms

London, 1939-43: bombed out and shadowed

London, 1944-7: picture post and atomic secrets

London, 1948-58: 'a sick woman'

Brighton, 1958-73: the final years

Postscript: the afterlife of Edith Tudor Hart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed April 9, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Santini, Daria A Woman Named Edith

ISBN:

9780300292480

0300292481

9780300292497

030029249X

OCLC:

1581574252

Publisher Number:

CIPO000355459

Access Restriction:

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