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Jenny Caroline Marx Longuet (1 May 1844 – 11 January 1883) was the eldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen Marx and Karl Marx. Briefly a political journalist writing under the pen name J. Williams , Longuet taught language classes and had a family of five sons and a daughter before her death to cancer at the age of 38.
Jenny von Westphalen was born in the small town of Salzwedel in Northern Germany to a fairly recently ennobled family that had been elevated into the petty nobility.Her father, Ludwig von Westphalen (1770–1842), was a civil servant and former widower with four previous children, who served as Regierungsrat (government councillor) in Salzwedel and in Trier.
On 23 June 1851 Helene Demuth gave birth to a boy, Henry Frederick Demuth, the birth certificate leaving the name of the father blank. [3] Some scholars accept that the child had been sired by Karl Marx, [4] a view that reflects surviving correspondence from the Marx family and their wider circle, as well as the fact that Marx's wife had been on a trip abroad nine months prior to the birth. [3]
Eleanor Marx (middle) with her two sisters - Jenny Longuet, Laura Marx, father Karl Marx (right) and Friedrich Engels. Eleanor Marx was born in London on 16 January 1855, the sixth child and fourth daughter [1] of Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen. She was called "Tussy" by her family from a young age.
There he became a friend of Karl Marx and got to know Marx's family, especially Laura, who fell in love with him. Lafargue and Laura married at St Pancras registry office in April 1868. During their first three years of marriage they had three children, two boys and a girl, all of whom died in infancy. They had no other children. [2]
The family often visited Jenny's father, Karl Marx, who liked to play with his grandchildren. [2] The Longuet family moved to France in February 1881. [2] In summer 1882 Karl Marx stayed with the Longuets for three months, being joined by Jean's aunt Eleanor Marx. By this time Jenny was suffering from bladder cancer, and would die a year later ...
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Karl Marx [a] (German: [kaʁl ˈmaʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.