Eleanor Marx

Eleanor Marx
Eleanor "Tussy" Marx
Born	Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx (1855-01-16)16 January 1855 London, England
Died	31 March 1898(1898-03-31) (aged 43) London, England
Cause of death	Suicide
Occupation(s)	Socialist activist, translator
Partner	Edward Aveling
Parents	Karl Marx (father) Jenny von Westphalen (mother)
Relatives	Laura Marx (sister) Jenny Longuet (sister) Henry Juta (cousin) Louise Juta (aunt) Heinrich Marx (grandfather) Henriette Pressburg (grandmother) Anton Philips (second cousin) Gerard Philips (second cousin)

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.