Eleanor "Tussy" Marx (1855 – 1898), also known as Eleanor Marx Aveling, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist, who sometimes worked as a literary translator. Involved in an unhappy personal relationship with prominent British atheist Edward Aveling, she committed suicide by poison at the age of 43.
Eleanor Marx was born in London on 16 January 1855, the sixth daughter of Marx and his wife Jenny ...
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Eleanor "Tussy" Marx (1855 – 1898), also known as Eleanor Marx Aveling, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist, who sometimes worked as a literary translator. Involved in an unhappy personal relationship with prominent British atheist Edward Aveling, she committed suicide by poison at the age of 43.
Eleanor Marx was born in London on 16 January 1855, the sixth 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 life-long sympathy for the Fenians. Her father's story-telling also inspired an interest in literature in her, she could recite passages by William Shakespeare at the age of three.
At the age of sixteen, Eleanor became her father's secretary and accompanied him around the world to socialist...
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