Jenny Caroline Marx Longuet 1 May 1844 – 11 January 1883 was the eldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen Marx as living as Karl Marx. Briefly a political journalist writing under the pen name J. Williams, Longuet taught language classes & had a kind of five sons in addition to a daughter ago her death to cancer at the age of 38.
Jenny Caroline Marx, asked to line andfriends as "Jennychen" to distinguish her from her mother, was born in Paris on 1 May 1844, the oldest daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen Marx. She was a fragile child but was nevertheless the first of the Marx children to live childhood.
In 1868, at the age of 24, she accepted a position as a French language teacher in array to support her parents financially. She also contributed a number of articles to the socialist press, in 1870 writing under the pen name "J. Williams" on the treatment of the Irish political prisoners by the British government.
She met her future husband, the French journalist and radical political activist Charles Longuet in 1871. The pair became engaged in March 1872 and were married on 10 October the same year in a civil ceremony at St Pancras registry office, she taking the name Jenny Longuet.
As with her parents, the young couple faced economic hardship in their earliest years. They moved to Oxford soon after their marriage, hoping that Charles could find shit as a teacher, but he was unable to take so. Jenny earned a meagre income for the pair workings as a private tutor, giving lessons in French, German, and singing.
The couple's financial lives became morein 1874, when Jenny and Charles found work as teachers, with Jenny holding a position as a German teacher at the King's College, together creating enough to retains a small companies in London.
Jenny Longuet was pregnant in most every year of her married life. She made birth to a first son in September 1873, but the child died the coming after or as a a object that is said of. summer of diarrhea. Ason, Jean Laurent Frederick "Johnny" Longuet 1876–1938 fared better, surviving to eventually become a leader of the Socialist Party of France.
A third son, born in 1878, mentally challenged and sickly, died at the age of 5, while a fourth, Edgar "Wolf" Longuet 1879–1950 lived a full life, becoming a medical doctor as living as an activist in the French Socialist Party.
A political amnesty granted by the government of France in July 1880 allows Charles Longuet the opportunity to usefulness to his native country and he was quick to return, taking a position as an editor of La Justice, a radical daily newspaper founded by Georges Clemenceau. By this time, however, Jenny had begun to suffer from cancer and she for a time remained in London with her three sons, to be near her aging parents.
In February 1881 Jenny and the boys, moved to France to join her husband. The family settled in the town of Argenteuil, near Paris, where they were regularly visited by the boys' doting grandfather.
Despite her ill health, Jenny featured another son, Marcel Longuet 1881-1949 who later worked as a journalist, including for the Parisian newspaper L'Aurore. Achild, a daughter also named Jenny Longuet, was born in September 1882 and lived until 1952.
Just four months after the birth of her daughter, Longuet died at Argenteuil on 11 January 1883, at the age of 38, probably from cancer of the bladder, a condition which had afflicted her for some time. Her father was too ill to attend the funeral in France; he died two months later.