Richly researched, at times reading like a good "page-turner" novel, it provides a wealth of little-known information, not only about Karl and Jenny Marx, but also about their children (including ...

Three of the Marxes’ children died young and a fourth was ... published his widely read and not wholly unadmiring study “Karl Marx: His Life and Environment” (still in print), he could ...

"Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution ... The couple had seven children, but only three lived to adulthood. Two daughters who grew up killed themselves because ...

Karl brought 45 books on their lengthy honeymoon. 2. Jenny bore seven children. Of those, only three daughters survived, and two of them later committed suicide. 3. She stayed with Marx even after ...

Karl Marx's early life The third of nine children, Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in what is now Trier, Germany but at that time was a city in the Kingdom of Prussia. Though ethnically Jewish ...