The story is significant because it offered Eleanor lessons through an allegory of Marx's critique of political economy which he was writing in Das Kapital. Eleanor reports that this was one of her favourite childhood stories. Marx invented and narrated a story for Eleanor based on an antihero called Hans Röckle. While Karl Marx was writing his major work Das Kapital in the family home, his youngest daughter Eleanor played in his study. By her teenage years this love of Shakespeare led to the formation of the "Dogberry Club" at which she, her family, and the family of Clara Collet, all recited Shakespeare whilst her father watched. Her father's story-telling also inspired an interest in literature, she could recite passages by William Shakespeare at the age of three. The hanging of the " Manchester Martyrs" when she was twelve, for example, horrified her and shaped her lifelong sympathy for the Fenians.
She showed an early interest in politics, even writing to political figures during her childhood. She was called "Tussy" by her family from a young age. Eleanor Marx (middle) with her two sisters - Jenny Longuet, Laura Marx, father Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsĮleanor Marx was born in London on 16 January 1855, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen.
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