Laura Marx
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Laura Marx was a socialist activist. The second daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen, she married revolutionary writer Paul Lafargue in 1868. The two died by suicide together in 1911.
Marx in 1860
Jenny von Westphalen
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Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen was a German theatre critic and political activist. She married the philosopher and political economist Karl Marx in 1843.
Laura Marx
…Laura Marx (26 September 1845 – 25 November 1911) was a socialist activist. The second daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen, she married revolutionary writer Paul Lafargue in 1868. The two died by suicide together in 1911. Jenny Laura Marx was born in Brussels and moved with…
Jenny Marx 1880
Portrait of a young Jenny von Westphalen, c. 1840s
Karl Marx (1818–1883), Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), and Marx's daughters: Jenny Caroline (1844–1883), Jenny Julia Eleanor (1855–1898), and Jenny Laura (1845–1911). Photograph c. 1864.
Jenny Caroline and Jenny Laura Marx in 1858.