Bloody Sunday (1887)
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Bloody Sunday was an event which took place in London, England on 13 November 1887, when a crowd of marchers protesting about unemployment and the Irish Coercion Acts, as well as demanding the release
Engraving from The Graphic (published 19 November 1887) depicting a policeman being clubbed by a demonstrator as he wrests a banner from "a Socialist woman leader, one Mrs. Taylor", while other people are covering their heads to protect themselves from raised police batons.
One of the bludgeons used by the rioters
The Life Guards Holding Trafalgar Square
Eleanor Marx
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Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx, sometimes called Eleanor Marx-Aveling and known to her family as Tussy, was an English writer, translator, activist, and the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. A key proponent o
Bloody Sunday (1887)
…Robert Cunninghame-Graham, who were primarily leaders of the Social Democratic Federation. Also marching were the Fabian playwright George Bernard Shaw, Eleanor Marx, and Charlotte Wilson. There were approximately 14,000 police officers for 5.5 million Londoners. Two thousand police and 400 troops were deployed to…
Eleanor Marx
Eleanor Marx (middle) with her two sisters - Jenny Longuet, Laura Marx, father Karl Marx (right) and Friedrich Engels
Eleanor Marx, pencil drawing by Grace Black (aka Grace Human) in 1881
Eleanor Marx (middle) with Wilhelm Liebknecht (left) and Edward Aveling (right) photographed in New York during their tour to America in 1886