Marx married Jenny von Westphalen after a long engagement. Their shared life included exile, poverty, illness, childcare, and political work; the surviving record also reveals how much Marx’s public...
London became Marx’s home for the rest of his life. The family endured recurring poverty and illness while Marx researched capitalism in the British Museum and relied on Engels’s regular financial...
Jenny von Westphalen Marx died after years of illness and exile. Her correspondence, political labor, and management of family hardship form part of the history of Marx’s work, which should not be...
Marx died after decades of research, political writing, and exile. His influence was still limited compared with its later global reach; Engels became the principal editor and interpreter of his...