Laura Marx
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Jenny Laura Marx (London, 26 September 1845 - 26 November 1911), second daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen. In 1868 she married Paul Lafargue. The two committed suicide together.[1]
[edit] The encounter with Paul Lafargue
Marx, in a letter to Friedrich Engels of 7 August 1866, speaks about the engagement between the two young people: "Yesterday Laura is nearly the promise spouse of Mr. Lafargue, Creole medicine student. It dealt it like the others; but little for the sentimentali stravaganze of these Creoles, little for the fear to see the young person (she has 25 years) to remove the life, little for the affection that feels for him, but always cold in Laura (is a beautiful young person, intelligent, energetic and much sportsman), has ended in order to accept the engagement. The young person has before become attached me, but it has not been late to make to pass its fascination from the father to the daughter."
[edit] External Links
(Spanish) Photo of the family Marx
[edit] Notes
- ^ Francis Wheen. 1999. Karl Marx: A Life. London: WW Norton & Company. p386.
