For her any
socialism had to strike at all kinds of oppression and involve both sexes on a
equal footing.
Review
Sunday Times, ‘This book takes you to a time when hastily written pamphlets had
an outside chance to changing the world: a time when the Reading Rooms of the British Museum was one of the hubs of the
intellectual universe.’
You have to
love someone who said - 'Who is the fiend who invented
house-keeping? I hope his invention may plague him in another world.'
BOOK.
Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes
Eleanor Marx Aveling (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), 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 Marxist, Edward Aveling, had secretly
married a young actress in June the previous year, she committed suicide by
poison. She was 43.