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TRAGEDY IN SYDENHAM

How Did Karl Marx's Daughter Die?

OR

"

Bumber of

now ↓ have

been in pursant of a

Woman,

It strunge, interimaa tent chase became for months

end she dis appears from any mind at the romance sens dead. Then suddenly I hear 11+ again the Este Flewizor echoing faintly but persia- tently from the past,

Fascinated | follow show- ly learning more and about the carcer +1 this remnikable woman. But Des cause only brief glimpsen af her are possible for many years of her life I see her generally as if in a series of faded yellow photographs. from an old album.

The Arst ty for the year 1860 There the

14 a crowries),

In

book-lined rauru of a bouse Dean Street, Sobo-a pale, wrok cblid of four so deltente

that from birth she has been kept Cairly una

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21 milk. the page, passed and Brea soten latte p with lang rhaglets and high farther

bition boots walking hand hand with hei berdest

Did this scene determine Eleanor Marx's death?

It is an illustration which appeared in the edition of Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," which Eleanor translated in 1886. The remarkable parallel with her own death twelve years later perhaps exonerates the sinister

Aveling from suspicion of her murder.

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Aveling's ~1 ቍ [21] P

were quick to poltt cut, a num- ber of things terew uspicion on I want t ordered The panem, he who sent a nole 1. Joeal chembed Saving. ale bearer onloro- Iowa and il

pantie 01 prusni nofd for the dog -B A

What makt It look all the more binek, but it not CRITICS mut at the time, was that in the Bort 120 124 June Aveling had secretly married a young girl of 22 named Eva Frye

She wur. as far as I ran gather, the estás Ing buty of un moteur show. Thr Hailway Guard,” which he was procuchip in London.

1

Eleanor Marx

Somehow He must have fiv©xi 2 lite between Eva and Eleanor for ten months. If 41: when Eleabur learnt the truth we do not thow, but Aveling's Chemies sal that he asked Eleanor to take part ta a sulette

01) her translation must she hunt Arunk her poison, tuiled to keep agonies of Flaubert's heroine. It have lived through all the anal his aide of the bargain.

They thought the farewell note whs a could not have failed to make Ibrgery, And that he slipped a lasting, searing impression on

her mind. way to London to provide an alibi.

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hurna into my brain is not of He translated "Das Kapital"

If this the writer, the bold feminist and into English and was the author

is so he did not live political

long lu puneer

enjoy his further an she was of thirty books. He was tin- ducing hug Bfe, this is Blennor doubtedly

relationship because almost 11 man of great tragle in denth.

exactly Now" Abilities, Irut

months later he was almost universally disilked by Elennor's died at Stafford Mansions In Al- felends who tolerated him only

Great Bridge Road, Battersea, of n kidney disease from which he because of her.

Elemor lived with this

had been suffering for years. com-

The scene is an upstairs room a will house at Sydenham. gure dressed in white Its ting motionless in death. A bottle

15%

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and with her onder brothers and

From Hampstead

зisters

to

Saciter's Wells The Marx tomily are on out

outing to see Phelps

in Shottespeare.

Then comes a big jump to the spring of 1883

She is a w

of 27 working like her Luther. Karl Mars, for hour after hour In the rending 'Don of the British Museum.

FOR

Most Vivid

of prussic weld is empty by her pletely amoral genius for fifteen site and on the table is a note:

years, and it was probably after

rath

1 will be ov

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This. then, in Beeting vig

is the story of Blennor

nettes.

FELIX BARKER

tells another of

the World's Strangest Stories

Engels (who left

Madame Bovary

Finally in the book there ta one incident which surely maites the similarity between fact and Betion too close for coincidence, When Madame Bovary is dead her husband insiste that she be dressed completely in white,

of the coroner's jury came back A phrase from the statement to me as I reach "The deceased of morbid disposition,"

was

he said.

Did this morbld neurosis, this

anar a good deal of money)dered the possibilty of mur- memory

POR a long while I have pon- That they were able to leave the

of what the had

in-

fat in Chancery Lane for der or suicide, and only quite written 12 years before. house of their own at Syden- recently came across something quence Eleanor when she, too, Hain. The Den in Jew's Walk off which may well be significant. her heart broken, had to dodde Wytwort 1.

My clue was provided by on her future? I should like to think that for friend who lent me à this part of her short fevered Floubert's "Madame Bovary"

there but her end, so sudden

COPY of

Mornily Aveling may have bedi responsible for Eleanor's

life Eleanor had some happiness in the English translation which death, but aftér reading and tragic in 1898, gives itun Eleanor had made in 1886. and Madame Bovary" I am inclined "I think you will be par- to acquit him from suspicion of

interested in the ac actual murder.

hope of 1.

The Letter ON Thursday, the last day of March in that year, a maid coming into her room

nt

Barly

count of Madame Bovary & death."

So I read this novel which so

scandalised France and Victorian England, the story of a woman disillusioned after two

11 who, and o'clock in the morning was love affairs, decided to take her mistress, Hte.

Marx, whose strange life. sted me for so long. even stranger death has fascin-

horrilled to find her

NOR the first time I can see my heroine clearly thruska to description by Beatrice Webla who met Eleanor at the museum and described her as "comely dressed in a slovenly pleturesque

with curly way

brown hair fying in all directions. Fing eyes full of life and sympathy; complexion showed signs of

of an

who was dressed completely and

Madame Bovary returns homë althy excited life.

To fill in the portrait a little dramotteally In while, lying and tells the chemist that. she Four years later-1887. That I must add that Eleanor was the dead on the bed.

wants poison to kill rats that background to

this picture is last of Karl Marx's six children. A letter in Eleanor's hand- are keeping her awake. most vivid for it was in that At the time of her birth in 1856 writing read:

Madame Bovary then swatijows year that Eleanor came to live her father, an exile in London Dear. It will soon be over a handful of arsenic, goes to her in Chancery Lane and, by ปี from his native Prussło, WAR NOW. My last word to you is bedroom, toritcy a Anal letter curious coincidence, occupied a extremely poor and devoting all the same that I have said dur- for her husband and lies down fat next to

'look

and at

one

that

A long and painful description

- Thia sacret which I first heard from Bernard

marriage, about hate some years ago, I only vars Hout, TO COVEr his tracks, and shie Kleanor and their mutual friends, Aveling married. Eon Frye at Chelsea Reisler Ofice on June 3, 1377/ under the assumed name of ind Nelson,

to the one which is his time to research On his ing all these long sad reara- full length on her bed. now mine and which I see every mammoth work, "Das Kapital." love. time i

out of my own: As a ព girl Eleanor loved

The letter, the poison, all the of her lingering death followe sitting-roum window.

Sted

circumstances pointed to suicide the drawn, lips, the dilated eyes, By now Eleanor is quita

a career on the

the and that was the verdict of the "her poor hands wandering famous as a writer and speaker stage unill, I believe, she was coroner's court, but was it over the sheets with that on Socialism, and at No. 05 dissuaded by Ellen Terry. Writ suicide? Or was Eleanor killed hideous and soft movement of Now Stone Buildings ho enter- ing WAR the obvious choice murdered as a number of her the dying." tains such famous early Fablans for a member of the Marx friends asserted, by Aveling? It is twelve pages long that as Shaw, William Morris and family and she translated three Aveling seemed clear of gulit description, and Eicanor work- Engels.

In a corner of this of her father's books as well as for he had travelled to London picture is a figure of whom we Ibsen's "Lady from the Ben that morning on the 10.10 and are to so much more the Altogether her name is on

ho knew nothing of the stated mysterious, rather duster Dr title page of eleven books, Eleanor's death until his return Edward

ged Aveling with whom she Karl Marx was a sick mun to Sydenham in the evening. to earth last week as Somerent is living.

towards the end of his days. "Hind you any iden," the doubtless to keep iza averes, from Quickly feking on through and after his wife's denth coroner, asked him the pages of this imaginary Eleanor nursed him until with would destroy herself?" album I see; Eleanor talking to his own death' in 1883 skłe was "She had threatened to do it the dockerS from a political free at last to live her own life, several times,” replied Aveling. platform in Limehouse: Eleanor It seems to have been just out teaching Will Thorne, the future this time that her affair startest M.P. for West Ham, to read and with Edward Aveling. Writenk-homb

"Eleanor balke discomated Aveling, who hangs like, an By 12

when trying, bvli genius over Elenor to, to sprend tiH. 10 term Küspel of Socialism was a remarkable- mon, He was at Oxford; the Front of a Congregational gland) and Bernard Shaw, sit minister, fi aulicist (author), of Ung toroqish talang part in the "Why Dare not ba a Chris- frat reading in England of "The Han"), a brillant, “orator, Wild Dudkage

doctors of selence, a dramatie Butkie photograph of the crite, writer of children,books, tâm þar me (1198) brink line lif, an unscrupulous" borrower short on me, predes" that mones,

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