Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx's youngest daughter ... In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story.

lamented Eleanor Marx in 1892. Karl Marx’s youngest daughter was to be the tragic victim of this truism, as Rachel Holmes explores in her biography that extricates this pioneering revolutionary ...

Being a Marx is a double-edged sword: Eleanor feels is being “strangled by the branches of my own family tree”; Aveling is ...

In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator ... attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.