Eden Paul

Maurice Eden Paul (1865, Sturminster Marshall, Dorset – 1944) was a socialist physician, writer and translator.

Biography
The son of the publisher Charles Kegan Paul, Eden Paul was educated at University College School and University College London; he continued his medical studies at London Hospital. In 1890 he married Margaret Jessie Macdonald, nee Boag, a ward sister at the London Hospital. From 1892 to 1894 he taught at a university in Japan, where a daughter, Hester, was born in 1893. Paul travelled with the Japanese army as a Times correspondent during the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895. Between 1895 and 1912 he practiced medicine in Japan, China, Perak, Singapore, Alderney and England. He was the founder and editor of the Nagasaki Press, 1897-99. By 1903 the family had moved to Alderney, where Paul's wife later established a private nursing home; however, Paul left her about this time. From 1907 to 1919 he was a member of the ILP, and worked for the French Socialist Party from 1912 to 1914. He subsequently joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. Together with Cedar Paul he wrote several books for a socialist reading public, and they also worked together to translate from German, French, Italian and Russian.

Works

 * Sexual life of the Child
 * Rejuvenation