Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

(Jenny Julia) Eleanor Marx (later Marx-Aveling) NPG 6771

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Grace Black (later Grace Human)

Exposed to politics from a young age through her father Karl Marx, socialist activism would be Eleanor Marx's lifelong cause. The Paris Commune of 1871 had a profound effect on her and she helped to organise aid for French refugees in London. She left the Social Democratic Federation and helped co-found the Socialist League with William Morris amongst others. In the 1880s she performed in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and learnt Norwegian to translate his plays. A member of the Women's Trade Union... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.