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Eleanor Marx

Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist who sometimes worked as a literary translator. In March 1898, after discovering that her partner Edward Aveling had secretly married the previous year, she poisoned herself at the age of 43.

Eleanor Marx

Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx

(1855-01-16)16 January 1855
London, England

31 March 1898(1898-03-31) (aged 43)

London, England

Suicide

Socialist activist, translator

Edward Aveling

Laura Marx (sister)
Jenny Longuet (sister)
Henry Juta (cousin)
Louise Juta (aunt)
Heinrich Marx (grandfather)
Henriette Pressburg (grandmother)
Anton Philips (second cousin)
Gerard Philips (second cousin)

The Factory Hell. With Edward Aveling. London: Socialist League Office, 1885.

The Woman Question. With Edward Aveling. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1886.

Shelley's Socialism: Two Lectures. With Edward Aveling. London: privately printed, 1888.

Israel Zangwill / Eleanor Marx: "A doll's house" repaired. London (Reprinted from: "Time", March 1891).

The Working Class Movement in America. With Edward Aveling. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1891.

The Working Class Movement in England: A Brief Historical Sketch Originally Written for the "Voles lexicon" Edited by Emmanuel Wurm. London: Twentieth Century Press, 1896.

In 1977, BBC Television broadcast a three part series "Eleanor Marx", with as Eleanor, Nigel Hawthorne as Engels, Patsy Byrne as Lenchen, Lee Montague as Karl Marx.

Jennie Stoller

Chūshichi Tsuzuki, The Life of Eleanor Marx, 1855–1898: A Socialist Tragedy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.

John Stokes, Eleanor Marx (1855–1898): Life, Work, Contacts. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

McLellan, David (2004). "Marx, (Jenny Julia) Eleanor". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40945. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Olga Meier and Faith Evans (eds.), The Daughters of Karl Marx: Family Correspondence, 1866–1898. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

Philip Dawkins, Miss Marx or The Involuntary Side Effect of Living Dramatic Publishing, 2015

Rachel Holmes, . London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Eleanor Marx: A Life

Yvonne Kapp, Eleanor Marx, Volume 2: The Crowded Years, 1884–1898. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1976. Also: New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.

Eleanor Marx: Volume 1: Family Life, 1855–1883. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1972. Also: New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.

Yvonne Kapp

Eleanor Marx biography on Women of Brighton site

at Marxists Internet Archive.

Eleanor Marx Internet Archive

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Eleanor Marx

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Eleanor Marx

at Internet Archive

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