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Eleanor Marx
Standard Name: Marx, Eleanor
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Karl Marx | His youngest daughter, Eleanor Marx
, was born in January 1855. She became an important British socialist and feminist. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wickham | AW
's mother, Alice (Whelan) Harper
, was an eccentric, flamboyant woman of many talents. |
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 | 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, 1971. 71 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Harkness | Probably through sisters Kate Potter Courtney
(whose house Harkness often stayed at) and Beatrice Potter (later Webb)
, MH
began to associate with the intellectuals who frequented the Reading Room of the British Museum
... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Hickey | Other members of the Browning Society
(besides the joint founder with EH
, Frederick James Furnivall
) included Eleanor Marx
and Frances Buss
. Benzie, William. Dr. F. J. Furnivall: Victorian Scholar Adventurer. Pilgrim Books, 1983. 231 |
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 | Annie Besant | The public animosity between [AB
] and Eleanor Marx
was inevitably put down to sexual rivalry, Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992. 166 |
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 | 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 , 1892–1893, pp. 315-16. 315 |
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 |
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, 1987. 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... |
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... |
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, 1994, pp. 233-51. 233 |
Timeline
16 January 1855: Eleanor Marx, leading British socialist (and...
Building item
16 January 1855
Eleanor Marx
, leading British socialist (and daughter of Karl Marx
), was born in London.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
2 May 1857: A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened...
Building item
2 May 1857
A grand dome designed by Panizzi
was opened in what had been the central courtyard of the British Museum
.
Barwick, George. The Reading Room of the British Museum. Ernest Benn, 1929.
65, 71, 88, 102, 104-5, 136, 139
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
69
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.
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1882: Eleanor Marx took acting lessons from Mrs...
Building item
1882
Eleanor Marx
took acting lessons from Mrs Hermann Vezin
.
Powell, Kerry. Women and Victorian Theatre. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
4
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.
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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.
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1886: Eleanor Marx published the socialist polemic...
Women writers item
1886
Eleanor Marx
published the socialist polemic The Woman Question with her partner Edward Aveling
.
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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
.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
xxxi
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
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31 March 1898: Eleanor Marx, socialist, feminist, and writer,...
Building item
31 March 1898
Eleanor Marx
, socialist, feminist, and writer, committed suicide.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
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.