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Jenny Longuet
Jenny Marx Longuet (left) and her sister, Jenny Laura Marx
Born
Jenny Caroline Marx

(1844-05-01)May 1, 1844
Paris
DiedJanuary 11, 1883(1883-01-11) (aged 38)
Argenteuil
OccupationJournalist
SpouseCharles Longuet
Parents

Jenny "Jennychen" Marx Longuet (born Jenny Caroline Marx; 1 May 1844 – 11 January 1883) was the eldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx.

Biography

Known as 'Jennychen' in the Marx circle, Jenny Longuet, Marx's eldest daughter, was a socialist activist. She wrote for the socialist press in France in the 1860s, most importantly in exposing British treatment of Fenian revolutionaries in Ireland.

Charles and Jenny Longuet in the 1870s.

She married Paris Commune veteran Charles Longuet on 2 October 1872. She was the mother of five boys and a daughter.[1]

Jenny Longuet died at Argenteuil near Paris on January 11, 1883, at the age of 38, probably from cancer of the bladder, a condition which had afflicted her for some time.[2]

Family of Jenny Longuet
16. Schmuel Mordechai ha-Levi
8. Marx Levi Mordechai
17. Malka Spira
4. Heinrich Marx
18. Moïse Lwow
9. Eva Lwow
19. Bella Eger
2. Karl Marx
20. Hirschl Michl Heymann Preßburg
10. Isaac Hijman Jitschak Preßburg
21. Heintje Isaac Kutsch
5. Henrietta Preßburg
22. Salomon David Cohen-Chazzan
11. Nanette Salomon Cohen
23. Sara Brandes
1. Jenny Marx
24. Isaac Johann Christian Westphal
12. Christian Philip Heinrich von Westphalen
25. Anna Elisabeth Henneberg
6. Ludwig von Westphalen
26. George Wishart
13. Jeanie Wishart
27. Anne Campbell
3. Jenny von Westphalen
28. Johann Michael Heubel
14. Julius Christoph Heubel
29. Anna Christiane Zimmermann
7. Amalia Julia Carolina Heubel
30. Julius Ernst Wiegand Heubel
15. Sophie Friederike Heubel
31. Marie Elisabeth Alexandrine Storch

Notes

Library resources about
Jenny Longuet
By Jenny Longuet
  1. ^ Francis Wheen. 1999. Karl Marx: A Life. London: WW Norton & Company. pp.350, 379.
  2. ^ Francis Wheen. 1999. Karl Marx: A Life. London: WW Norton & Company. p379-80.

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