After graduating from Cambridge in 1879, Pearson spent a year abroad in Germany and fell so much in love with its culture that he promptly changed his name from Carl to Karl. He was a socialist long before it became popular, and he wrote to Karl Marx in 1881, offering to translate Das Kapital into English. Pearson, arguably one of England’s first feminists, started the Men’s and Women’s Club in London for discussions of “the woman question.” He was concerned about women’s subordinate position in society and advocated for them to be paid for their work. He
