Eleanor Marx

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1855 – 1898

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Who was Eleanor Marx?

Eleanor Marx Aveling, also known as Jenny Julia Eleanor "Tussy" Marx, 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 and prominent British atheist, Edward Aveling, had secretly married a young actress in June the previous year, she committed suicide by poison. She was 43.

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Born
Jan 16, 1855
London
Also known as
  • Tussy
  • Jenny Julia Eleanor "Tussy" Marx
  • Jenny Julia Eleanor
  • Eleanor Marx Aveling
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Siblings
Spouses
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
Lived in
  • Sydenham
Died
Mar 31, 1898
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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