Mary Burns
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Mary Burns (d. 7 January 1863 [1]) was the Irish partner of Friedrich Engels,[2] who introduced him and Karl Marx to much of the working class and its struggle in 19th-century Manchester, England.
After meeting in the 1840s, Burns and Engels formed a relationship that lasted until Burns' death in 1863. Although the custom of the day was marriage, the two never married due to political convictions in opposition to marriage.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Letter from Engels to Marx, see footnote 179 (page 238) in The Life of Friedrich Engels (volume I) by William Otto Henderson, 1976, ISBN 0714640026. (In Google books [1].)
- ^ BBC
- ^ Marxists.org
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