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English-born activist and daughter of Karl Marx (1855–1898)

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Eleanor Marx (1855–1898) was a British literary translator and political activist. Born in Soho, she was the daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen. Her siblings included Jenny Longuet and Laura Marx. Marx held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and spoke English, German, French, and Norwegian. She was a member of the Social Democratic Federation, the Socialist League, and the Independent Labour Party.

Marx’s literary work included translations such as *A doll's house* and *The lady from the sea*, as well as *Value, price and profit* and *Wages and labor pamphlets*. Her archives are held at the International Institute of Social History. She had unmarried partners, Edward Aveling and Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray. Eleanor Marx died by suicide in Sydenham on March 31, 1898.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1855
Died
1898
Works
10

Top works

  • A doll's house
  • Wages and labor pamphlets
  • Value, price and profit
  • The lady from the sea
  • Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡īi︠a︡ i kontr-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡īi︠a︡ v Germanīi

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Type
Person
Active from
1974-10-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
4

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Key facts

Born
Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx , ( 1855-01-16 ) 16 January 1855, London, England
Died
31 March 1898 (1898-03-31) (aged 43), London, England
Cause of death
Suicide
Other names
"Tussy" Marx Eleanor Aveling
Occupations
Socialist activist, translator
Partner
Edward Aveling
Parents
Karl Marx (father) Jenny von Westphalen (mother)
Relatives
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)

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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