Eleanor Marx
Page 58
12 See, for example, Freddy Demuth to LL, 7 October 1910, IISH, and Freddy Demuth to Eduard Bernstein, 29 August 1912, IISH.
13 Karl Marx, ‘Peuchet: On Suicide’ (1846), MECW, Vol. 4, p. 597, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/09/suicide.htm
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid. See also Hal Draper, ‘Marx and Engels on Women’s Liberation’, July 1970, http://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1970/07/women.htm
16 Eduard Bernstein, ‘What Drove Eleanor Marx to Suicide?’, Justice, 30 July 1898, pp. 2–3.
17 Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling, The Woman Question, p. 21.
18 Gertrude Gentry to Edith Lanchester, 1 May 1898, IISH.
A Note on the Author
Rachel Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor, with Lisa Appignanesi and Susie Orbach, of Fifty Shades of Feminism and co-commissioning editor, with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon, of Sixty-Six Books: Twenty-First Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible. She lives in Gloucestershire.
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