Ethel L. Voynich papers, 1928-1948. http://www.findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.music.eadmus.mu010020&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=bioghist.
Eleanor Marx
Standard Name: Marx, Eleanor
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Before publishing novels of her own, ELV
started in the literary field as a translator, largely of texts by writers she was connected to through her revolutionary involvement. |
politics | Clementina Black | |
politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | Others who attended the club included Annie Besant
, Olive Schreiner
, Elizabeth Blackwell
, Henrietta Müller
, and Eleanor Marx
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke. 6 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | She was also a member of the London-based Writers' Club
, the Women's Institute
—which embraced an educational programme of appalling size, to the frivolous mind—and the Pioneer Club
, which counted IOF
,... |
Performance of text | Henrik Ibsen | HI
's A Doll's House received a private reading at the home of Eleanor Marx
and Edward Aveling
in Bloomsbury, London. Durbach, Errol. “A century of Ibsen criticism”. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane and James McFarlane, Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-51. 233 |
Literary responses | Amy Levy | The Jewish press was outraged by what it saw as the antisemitism of this novel. The Jewish Chronicle did not review it, but implied strong disapprobation in an article entitled Critical Jews. The Jewish... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | In this an advanced woman, Nora, smokes as a protest against existing prejudices. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 68 The heroine's name suggests that either Nesbit or Bland had been quick off the mark in digesting the message of Ibsen |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | Nance is almost a colourless character apart from her capacity for passion. (In an apparently non-literary book, a tradition of steamy fiction is evoked when her desire to make Kitty sorry makes her think of... |
Friends, Associates | Amy Levy | They included Olive Schreiner
, the future Beatrice Webb
, Dollie Maitland Radford
, Margaret Harkness
, Clementina Black
(whose sister Constance
had been a school friend of AL
), and Eleanor Marx
. Through... |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | Through her political interests she got to know George Bernard Shaw
(with whom she had a brief affair but a succeeding steady friendship), Sidney Webb
, Sydney Olivier
, Annie Besant
, Eleanor Marx
,... |
Friends, Associates | Olive Schreiner | In England she also formed close friendships and intellectual bonds with feminist and socialist intellectual Eleanor Marx
, barrister and mathematics professor Karl Pearson
, and socialist pioneer Edward Carpenter
. Others she met in... |
Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | The public animosity between [AB
] and Eleanor Marx
was inevitably put down to sexual rivalry, Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 166 |
Friends, Associates | Clementina Black | |
Friends, Associates | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | 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 | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
, Edward Hulton
(editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford
, for whom she wrote several articles. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 71 |
Timeline
16 January 1855: Eleanor Marx, leading British socialist (and...
Building item
16 January 1855
2 May 1857: A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened...
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2 May 1857
A grand dome designed by Panizzi
was opened in what had been the central courtyard of the British Museum
.
1871: At sixteen years of age Eleanor Marx was...
Women writers item
1871
At sixteen years of age Eleanor Marx
was already acting as her father
's personal secretary, as well as travelling with him to various international conferences.
1882: Eleanor Marx took acting lessons from Mrs...
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1882
Eleanor Marx
took acting lessons from Mrs Hermann Vezin
.
December 1884: Eleanor Marx, William Morris, and Edward...
National or international item
December 1884
Eleanor Marx
, William Morris
, and Edward Aveling
were among those who formed the Socialist League
after abandoning the Social Democratic Federation
in protest over H. M. Hyndman
's leadership.
1886: Eleanor Marx published the socialist polemic...
Women writers item
1886
1886: Eleanor Marx, as Eleanor Marx Aveling, published...
Writing climate item
1886
Eleanor Marx
, as Eleanor Marx Aveling, published her English translation of Gustave Flaubert
's Madame Bovary from the original French.
1888: Eleanor Marx's translation of An Enemy of...
Writing climate item
1888
Eleanor Marx
's translation of An Enemy of the People by Ibsen
appeared in The Pillars of Society and Other Plays, edited by Havelock Ellis
.
1895: Eleanor Marx, as Eleanor Marx Aveling, published...
Women writers item
1895
Eleanor Marx, as Eleanor Marx Aveling
, published her English translation of Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
's Anarchism and Socialism.
1896: Eleanor Marx edited a collection of her father's...
Writing climate item
1896
Eleanor Marx
edited a collection of her father
's essays, Revolution and Counter-Revolutions or Germany in 1848, as Eleanor Marx Aveling.
31 March 1898: Eleanor Marx, socialist, feminist, and writer,...
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31 March 1898
Eleanor Marx
, socialist, feminist, and writer, committed suicide.
Texts
Ibsen, Henrik. “Note”. The Pillars of Society and Other Plays, edited by Havelock Ellis, translated by. William Archer et al., Walter Scott, 1888, p. xxxi.