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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:24:48 -0400
From: "Charles Brown" <charlesb-AT-CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us>
Subject: Re: M-FEM: Eleanor Marx


This was posted before.
  If I might comment on a side point:
  If this message is from the C.J. Arthur
who wrote the Editor's Introduction to
International/Lawrence edition of
The German Ideology, I would like to
express my appreciation for it. It is
very helpful to me. I have read a couple
of times.
                     Charles Brown

>>> <owner-marxism-feminism-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU> 04/22 10:43 AM >>>
[Moderator's Note: Things have been a bit confused around here lately, and
I'm not sure I forwarded the following message when it was originally
posted. If it is a repetition, my apologies.

Carrol Cox is right to regret that the centenary Eleanor Marx's death seems
to have been overlooked. The most substantial biography is by Yvonne Kapp,
Virago Press, London 1979, reprinting from Lawrence  & Wishart 1972. If it
is out of print this is a scandal and one or other of these presses should
be pushed to republish it.
To clear up some details in the post. She was born and always legally
remained Eleanor Marx. It is incorrect to refer to her 'marriage to
Aveling' since there was no such marriage. Correct, although anachronistic,
is the reference lower down to a 'partnership'. This concept was unknown at
the time and as far as I recall Eleanor always wished to be legally married
to Aveling and in token of her aspiration fequently used the names Eleanor
Aveling, Eleanor Marx Aveling, and Eleanor Marx-Aveling, according to Kapp.
Chris A




   

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