Marx and aristocrat wife had tragic family  “Love and Capital:
Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution” (Little,
Brown and Co.), by Mary Gabriel  Karl Marx, the father of
international communism, was a devoted husband to his wife,
Jenny, a daughter of Prussian and British aristocracy.  In the
newest Marx biography, “Love and Capital,” author Mary Gabriel
writes that she had been unable to find one “that told the
bittersweet drama that was their life story. At the depth of the
couple’s long poverty, Jenny still carried calling cards
identifying her as “born, Baroness Jenny von Westphalen.”  The
couple had seven children, but only three lived to adulthood.
Two daughters who grew up killed themselves because of political
and marital problems.  Friedrich Engels, a close friend,
collaborator and financial supporter of Marx, spoke for the
ailing husband at Jenny’s funeral.  “The contribution made by
this woman,” he said, “with such a sharp critical intelligence,
with such political tact, a character of su