Marx, Erica, 1909-1969.

Epithet: poet and publisher

British author and publisher. Marx operated Les Presses de l'Hotel Sagonne in Paris from 1938-1940 and 1945-1947. She was the sole proprietor of the Hand and Flower Press in Kent, England from 1945 to 1963; of particular renown is the Poems in Pamphlet series, which ran for three series of 10-11 each in 1951-1953. Each pamphlet included up to 40 poems by one author and sold for a low price.

Under the Hand and Flower imprint, Marx published two books of her own verse. The first of these, Escape from Anger, was issued in the 1951 pamphlet series, under the pseudonym Robert Manfred. The second, Some Poems, was published as a chapbook in 1955.