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Eleanor Marx
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Eleanor Marx, also known as Eleanor Aveling, was a British literary translator born in Soho in 1855. She was the daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen, and the sister of Jenny Longuet and Laura Marx. Her native language was English, and she also spoke Norwegian, German, and French. She was a member of the Social Democratic Federation, the Socialist League, and the Independent Labour Party.
Her notable works include translations of *A doll's house*, *Wages and labor pamphlets*, *Value, price and profit*, *The lady from the sea*, and *Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡īi︠a︡ i kontr-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡īi︠a︡ v Germanīi*. She had unmarried partners Edward Aveling and Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray. Marx died in Sydenham in 1898 from poison. Her archives are held at the International Institute of Social History.
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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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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Julia
- Family name
- Marx
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Soho
- Place of death
- Sydenham
- Father
- Karl Marx
- Mother
- Jenny von Westphalen
- Occupation
- philatelist
- Political party
- Independent Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- literary translator
- Image
- Mrs Eleanor Marx Aveling, daughter of Karl Marx.jpg
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- unmarried partner
- Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray
- date of birth
- 1855-01-16
- date of death
- 1898-03-31
- Commons category
- Eleanor Marx
- manner of death
- Suicide
- name in native language
- Eleanor Aveling
- cause of death
- poison
- writing language
- English language
- present in work
- Miss Marx
- place of burial
- Marx Memorial Library
- Commons Creator page
- Eleanor Marx
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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.
Biography
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