Edward Aveling, 'Son-in-Law of Karl Marx': A Victorian Enigma

This book is a biography of Dr Edward Bibbins Aveling (1849-1898). The author first came to her subject by way of Eleanor Marx. She soon discovered that Aveling was a very estimable and significant figure in his own right. He was a leading presence in the British socialist movement in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, where he is found in every turn in the movement's development. And as the Free Love partner of Karl Marx's youngest daughter, Eleanor, he enjoyed billing as the ...