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#OtD 11 Jan 1883 Jenny Marx Longuet died aged just 38. Jenny Marx was another defender of the Irish cause…
“The English have no scruples […] when it is a question of hanging a man — especially a Fenian. But all this spate of cruelty cannot break the iron spirit of the Irish.”
![#OtD 11 Jan 1883 Jenny Marx Longuet died aged just 38. Jenny Marx was another defender of the Irish cause…“The English have no scruples […] when it is a question of hanging a man — especially a Fenian. But all this spate of cruelty cannot break the iron spirit of the Irish.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erdq1f4XEAgbLUf.jpg "#OtD 11 Jan 1883 Jenny Marx Longuet died aged just 38. Jenny Marx was another defender of the Irish cause…“The English have no scruples […] when it is a question of hanging a man — especially a Fenian. But all this spate of cruelty cannot break the iron spirit of the Irish.”")
“The English have no scruples […] when it is a question of hanging a man — especially a Fenian. But all this spate of cruelty cannot break the iron spirit of the Irish.”
Engels writing about Jenny Marx following her death & highlighting the work she did exposing the treatment of Fenian prisoners - notably O’Donovan Rossa.
“The proletariat has lost a valiant fighter.”
“The proletariat has lost a valiant fighter.”
“Jenny, who had never seen him [O’D Rossa], wrote to him under her pen-name J. Williams, full of admiration for his steadfastness. Mrs Rossa, hearing that the writer of the letters was a girl, is said to have been extremely jealous. This greatly amused Marx.” - Franzisca Kugelman
![“Jenny, who had never seen him [O’D Rossa], wrote to him under her pen-name J. Williams, full of admiration for his steadfastness. Mrs Rossa, hearing that the writer of the letters was a girl, is said to have been extremely jealous. This greatly amused Marx.” - Franzisca Kugelman](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erdq3HrWMAYI7c-.jpg "“Jenny, who had never seen him [O’D Rossa], wrote to him under her pen-name J. Williams, full of admiration for his steadfastness. Mrs Rossa, hearing that the writer of the letters was a girl, is said to have been extremely jealous. This greatly amused Marx.” - Franzisca Kugelman")
“Theoretical fiction has it that constitutional liberty is the rule & its suspension an exception, but the whole history of English rule in Ireland shows that a state of emergency is the rule & the application of the constitution is the exception.” - Jenny Marx
