Eric Hobsbawm - Personal Life

Personal Life

Hobsbawm's first marriage was to Muriel Seaman in 1943. It ended in divorce in 1951. His second marriage was to Marlene Schwarz, with whom he had two children, Julia Hobsbawm and Andy Hobsbawm. Julia is chief executive of Hobsbawm Media and Marketing and a Visiting Professor of Public Relations at the College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He also had a son, Joshua Bennathan, from a previous relationship.

Read more about this topic:  Eric Hobsbawm

Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:

    “If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “‘Tis of the essence of life here,
    Though we choose greatly, still to lack
    The lasting memory at all clear,
    That life has for us on the wrack
    Nothing but what we somehow chose;
    Thus are we wholly stripped of pride
    In the pain that has but one close,
    Bearing it crushed and mystified.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)