Eleanor Marx

Eleanor Marx Aveling was the Englishborn 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 and prominent British Marxist, Edward Aveling, had secretly married a young actress in June the previous year, she committed suicide by poison. She was 43.

Eleanor Marx was born in London onJanuary 1855, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen. She was called Tussy from a young age. She showed an early interest in politics, even writing to political figures during her childhood. The hanging of the Manchester Martyrs when she was twelve, for example, horrified her and shaped her lifelong sympathy for the Fenians. Her fathers storytelling also inspired an interest in literature in her, she could recite passages by William Shakespeare at the age of three. By her teenage years this love of Shakespeare led to the formation of the Dogberry Club at which she, her family and the family of Clara Collet, all recited Shakespeare whilst her father watched.

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