As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw
Friends, Associates
Clementina Black
Besides her friendship with Eleanor MarxCB
became close friends with Amy Levy
, whom she met in London in the late 1870s. She introduced Levy's work Xantippe to publishers.
Cameron, Mary. “Clementina Black: A Character Sketch”. The Young Woman, Vol.
1
, pp. 315-16.
315
When Levy committed suicide...
Family and Intimate relationships
Karl Marx
His youngest daughter, Eleanor Marx
, was born in January 1855. She became an important British socialist and feminist.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Brought up in a poor family in Camden Town, she became a teacher with the London School Board
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