Eleanor Marx (16th January 1855 – 31st March 1898) was a Marxist author and political activist. (Redirected from 16th January) January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years). ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ...

Born in London, she was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen. After being taught at home by her father, she became his secretary, and then a schoolteacher in Brighton. Her first significant relationship was with Hippolyte Lissagaray the Communard and author of the History of the Commune of 1871 about the Paris Commune. Her father disapproved and the relationship foundered. This article is about the British city. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883 London) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary organizer of the International Workingmens Association. ... Johanna Jenny Bertha Julie von Westphalen (born 12 February 1814, died 2 December 1881) was the wife of Karl Marx, and the daughter of Johann Ludwig, Baron von Westphalen, a professor at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. ... A secretary is an office/administrative support position. ... In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill. ... Brighton on the southern Sussex coast is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England. ... The Communards were also an 80s Britpop group Communard is an archaic term that is a synonym of communist. With respect to the history of France, the Communards were the supporters/members of the short-lived Paris Commune formed in the disturbed period immediately after the Franco-Prussian War. ... Le Père Duchesne face to the statue of Napoleon I on top of the Vendome column: Eh ben ! bougre de canaille, on va donc te foutre en bas comme ta crapule de neveu !… (Here! savage rascal, we will put you down just as your crook of a nephew!… The...

In 1884, she joined the Social Democratic Federation and was elected to its executive, spending much of her time lecturing on socialism. Later in the year became a founder member of the rival Socialist League, as did her then partner, Edward Aveling. 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the British political party. ... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... The Socialist League was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. ... Edward Bibbens Aveling (29 November 1849 – 2 August 1898) was an English Marxist and partner of Eleanor Marx, the daughter of Karl Marx. ...

In the late 1880s and 1890s, Marx became a trade union activist, supporting strikes such as the Bryant & May strike and the London Dock Strike of 1889. She helped organise the Gasworkers' Union and wrote numerous books and articles. // Events and Trends Technology Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... The London Dock Strike was an industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London. ... The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 700,000 members. ...

She also translated various literary works, including Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, as well as Henrik Ibsen' The Lady from the Sea and An Enemy of the People. Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. ... Madame Bovary book cover Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert that raised a scandal when it was first published in 1857 and is now seen as one of the first modern realistic novels. ... Henrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828 – May 23, 1906) was an extremely influential Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama (dubbed the father of modern drama). It is said that Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. ... An Enemy of the People is a play written by Henrik Ibsen (1882). ...

In 1898, she discovered Aveling had secretly married a young actress. He proposed a suicide pact, which he never intended to follow through. Instead, he supplied her with prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide), which she then used to kill herself, and left the house. Although he was widely reviled for his actions, no charges were laid against him. 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A suicide pact describes the suicides of two or more individuals in an agreed-upon plan. ... Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with chemical formula H-C≡N. A solution of hydrogen cyanide in water is called hydrocyanic acid or prussic acid. ...

External links

• Eleanor Marx Internet Archive, at Marxists.org
• Spartacus on Eleanor Marx
• Works by Eleanor Marx at Project Gutenberg