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Eleanor Marx

1855 - 1898

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Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (16 January 1855 – 31 March 1898), sometimes called Eleanor Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, 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 Edward Aveling had secretly married the previous year, she poisoned herself at the age of 43. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eleanor Marx is the 905th most popular writer (down from 776th in 2019), the 841st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 595th in 2019) and the 88th most popular British Writer.

Eleanor Marx was most famous for being a socialist activist and the daughter of Karl Marx.

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Among writers, Eleanor Marx ranks 905 out of 7,302. Before her are Maurice Druon, Neale Donald Walsch, Dobrica Ćosić, Theodor Fontane, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Pu Songling. After her are Wilkie Collins, Władysław Tarnowski, Leconte de Lisle, Samuel Richardson, Adunis, and Pierre-Jean de Béranger.

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Among people born in 1855, Eleanor Marx ranks 14. Before her are John Browning, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Percival Lowell, Ernest Chausson, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and Paul Deschanel. After her are Robert M. La Follette, Arthur Nikisch, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, Paul-Jacques Curie, Georges Rodenbach, and Inukai Tsuyoshi. Among people deceased in 1898, Eleanor Marx ranks 19. Before her are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Ferdinand Cohn, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Garnier, Félicien Rops, and Theodor Fontane. After her are John Newlands, Heungseon Daewongun, Henry Bessemer, Frances Willard, Edward Burne-Jones, and Zachris Topelius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eleanor Marx ranks 841 out of 8,785. Before her are Chris Norman (1950), Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850), Mary Quant (1930), Brian Cox (1946), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), and Ernest Thompson Seton (1860). After her are Wilkie Collins (1824), John Newlands (1837), Cynegils (575), Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892), Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), and Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Eleanor Marx ranks 88. Before her are William McMaster Murdoch (1873), Julian Barnes (1946), Douglas Adams (1952), James May (1963), Ian McEwan (1948), and Ernest Thompson Seton (1860). After her are Wilkie Collins (1824), Samuel Richardson (1689), H. Rider Haggard (1856), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809).

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