Marianne Kreuz
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| Born | June 17, 1835 Sankt Wendel |
| 💀Died | December 23, 1862 (aged 27) LondonDecember 23, 1862 (aged 27) |
| Cause of death | Unsafe abortion |
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Marianne Kreuz was from 1857 Handmaiden in the household of Karl Marx, Grafton 9 Grafton Terrace, Haverstock Hill, Kentish Town.
Kreuz, the younger sister of Marx's housekeeper Helene Demuth, worked for the Marx family for several years in the late 1850s and early 1860s.[1]
Biography[edit]
- On June 17, 1835, at the age of 43, Maria Katharina Demuth gave birth to her eighth child, her daughter Marianne. Since her husband was already 9 years dead † and she did not specify the father of the child, it was entered in the birth register of the mayor of Sankt Wendel under the name Anna Maria Creuz.[citation needed]
- At the age of ten Marianne is in the household of Caroline von Westphalen in Trier hired there, takes over the position of Helene Demuth, who went to Brussels in the spring of 1845 to Jenny von Westphalen and Karl.[citation needed]
- Marianne stays with Caroline until her death in 1856 and comes to Jenny in London in 1857. She worked from then until her death in 1862 in the Marx household[citation needed].
- On April 28, 1857, Maria Kreurz, maid, Sankt Wendel, aged 22, applied for a passport to London in Sankt Wendel, in order to enter service.
- Finally, the birth certificate in London, the death certificate of a »Mary Cross« were found, after which she died there on December 23, 1862.[2]
- Their economic situation worsened in 1862 when Marx's work for the New-York Tribune ceased altogether.
- Tussy burrowed into her adventure novels and wonderded at ht hushed discussion between her mother and Helene Demuth about Marianne Kreuz, their maidservant, Marianne, thought to be Helene Demuth's younger sister or cousin, had joined the Grafton Terrace household in 1860.
- In their present circumstances, a maidservant was an unaffordable luxury.
- In fact, they were helping Marianne conceal an unwanted pregnancy.[3]
- For a year past the second servant, Marianne Kreuz, had been on the list of family physician, Dr. Allan in Soho Square, patients. She suffered from a heart complaint that caused him serious misgivings in mid-December 1862, at which juncture Mrs. Marx had just left for France.
- It was 23 December and the funeral had to be postponed until Christmas was over Marianne was burried on 27 December.
Jenny von Westphalen's yourney to Paris[edit]
Mrs Westphalen departed in December to see a banker who had befriended her and Marx in their Paris days. On meeting him she found M. Arbabanel was paralyzed by a stroke and decided to leave. she arrived home on 23 December, to learn that Marianne Kreuz had died the same day.
References[edit]
- ↑ Sperber, Jonathan (2013). Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 301. ISBN 0871404672.
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- ↑ Volker Elis Pilgrim, Adieu Marx: Gewalt und Ausbeutung im Hause des Wortführers, Rowohlt, 1990 - 287 S, [1]p. 131
- ↑ Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: A Life, p. 57
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