Friedrich Engels
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Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best known for his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx, with whom he co-authored The Comm
Engels in 1877
Engels's childhood home in Barmen, Prussia, a town which he later described as the "Zion of the obscurantists".
Self-portrait of Engels at age 19 in 1839
Sketch by Engels depicting the Berlin Freien, 1842
Lizzie Burns
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Lydia "Lizzie" Burns was a working-class Irish woman, the wife of German philosopher Friedrich Engels.
Friedrich Engels
…elaborate arrangements. He maintained an official residence in respectable city suburbs while living secretly with Mary Burns, and later her sister Lizzy, in a series of modest houses in working-class districts like Chorlton and Ardwick. In his public life, Engels became a stalwart of Manchester society…
Burns, c. 1865