Eleanor Mara.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2107, 28 May 1898, Page 3

Eleanor Mara.

From socialism to suicide, a heavy declension f- Such was the fate at Sydenham of the youngest daughter of ! the late Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx, or | as she was usually called, Mrs Eleanor Marx: Aveling. For some years she had lived with Dr Aveling, a well- ■ known author and lecturer, and adopted his name, although she was not his wife. Although of exuberant spirits she had been lately depressed owing |to pecuniary difficulties and had suggested to her companion that they should die together. . During his absence she sent her maid to a chemist with a note— 4 Please give bearer chloroform and small quantity of prussic acid for dog.—E.A/ and as Dr Aveling’s card was enclosed the chemist sent the poison, as he believed, to a qualified medical practitioner. When the doctor arrived on the scene Eleanor: Marx had been dead for about two- hours. She had carried foa with great energy her father’s socialistic work. ‘As she was an eloquent openair orator and could speak and write English, French ’and German with equal facility. and fluency she played a prominent part at socialistic congresses where she did good service both as a speaker and an interpreter. She translated several of her father’s works, twelve years ago- made a successful tour through America with Liebknecht and Dr AVeling, and - during the : dock strike of ’B9 was unwearying in organising relief for the women and children of the dockers,