Jenny Longuet
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Jenny Marx Longuet (left) and her sister, Jenny Laura Marx
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Jenny Caroline Marx May 1, 1844 Paris |
| Died | January 11, 1883 (aged 38) Argenteuil |
| Occupation | Language teacher |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Longuet |
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Jenny Caroline "Jennychen" Marx Longuet (1 May 1844 – 11 January 1883) was the eldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen Marx and Karl Marx. Briefly a political journalist writing under the pen name "J. Williams" in 1870, Longuet taught language classes and helped raise a family of five sons and a daughter before her death of cancer at the age of 38.
Jenny Caroline Marx, known to family and close friends as "Jennychen" to distinguish her from her mother, was born in London on 1 May 1844, the oldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen Marx and Karl Marx. She was a fragile child but was nevertheless the first of the Marx children to survive childhood.
In 1868, at the age of 24, Marx accepted a position as a French language teacher in order to help her parents financially. She also contributed a number of articles to the socialist press, writing under the pen name "J. Williams" on the treatment of the Irish political prisoners by the English government in 1870.
She met her future husband, the French journalist and radical political activist Charles Longuet in 1871. The pair became engaged in March 1872 and were married on October 10 of that same year, she taking the name Jenny Longuet.
As was the case with her parents, the young couple were economically strapped in their earliest years. Hoping that Charles could find work as a teacher, the pair moved to Oxford after their marriage, but he was unable to do so. Jenny scraped together a meagre income for the pair working as a private tutor, giving lessons in French, German, and singing.
The couple's financial lives became more stable in 1874, when both Jenny and Charles found work as teachers, with Jenny holding a position as a German teacher at the Clement Dane School. The minimal salary she earned at the school she supplemented by giving private lessons. Her husband obtained a position teaching French at King's College, together making enough to maintain a small house in London.
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