Talk:Eleanor Marx

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Need to rewrite
There needs to be reference made to the several published books on Eleanor Marx and elimination of the sometimes dubious and comparatively unscholarly internet bios that are the source of the current version of this article. Carrite (talk) 00:18, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

You'll be lucky, Carrite. It seems on Wiki you are at the mercy of certain editors who use online sources exclusively, and in my opinion detrimentally, mainly because half the Biogs on the net are full of factual inaccuracies, as you say. And when say you amend someone's birthplace as I have previously, having actually known said person the article is about, get your revisions wiped out and you find yourself scouring the web to get an online link for it, even though I had actually referenced a page of a freely viewable digital copy of an authoritative tome. I note that your comment was made back in 2009, but nothing has changed for the better 86.144.169.139 (talk) 19:05, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

English ?
She was English, wasn't she? So why put English-born when she's was English. People never do this with 'Irish-born' they always put it as 'Irish' and 'has Irish ancestry'. For example, the English actor Michael Gambon.

I think Wiki needs some hard rules on nationalities, because the current system is very flawed. And it would benefit us all for some kind of rule set be drawn up.

Marx himself had been living in England for 30+ years at the time of his death and he was buried here.

Possible grounds to identify Marx himself as German-born English in that when he became 'stateless' and no longer considered a native of any country, he was exiled to England, where to lived for more than half his life-

NB: If everyone on Wiki that was purported to have Irish ancestry in fact did, there would be more people in the world who self identified as 'Irish' than there are Chinese people. Get a grip wiki editors! 86.144.169.139 (talk) 18:59, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

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Marx's papers after his death
The article says that "Before his death, her father gave [Eleanor] the task of taking care of the publication of his unfinished manuscripts and the English language version of his main work, Capital". This internet site is cited in support. Is this correct? It was Friedrich Engels who edited Marx's manuscripts and notes and to enable volumes II and II of Das Kapital to be published, although Eleanor and Edward Aveling were involved in the English translation, and sorted out Marx's papers after Engels death in 1895. Should this be rewritten? Hsq7278 22:14, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

I have changed the relevant passage in the article to reflect the above. If there is a reliable source that confirms the original wording, please amend. Hsq7278 18:48, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Eleanor's work in translating
I was wondering if Eleanor's accolades in her translation work, could be expounded on? Pretty much everything she's done in life is touched on briefly, but maybe including some more detail of her work would add to who she was and how brilliant she was. K.Ash.Adams (talk) 03:57, 8 May 2020 (UTC)