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- Lydia "Lizzie" Burns (6 August 1827 – 12 September 1878 in London) was a working-class Irish woman, best known as a long-term partner of Friedrich Engels. Lizzie Burns was a daughter of Michael Burns or Byrne, a dyer in a cotton mill, and of Mary Conroy.
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Lydia "Lizzie" Burns (6 August 1827 [2] – 12 September 1878) was a working-class Irish woman, the wife of German philosopher Friedrich Engels. [3] [4] Lizzie Burns was a daughter of Michael Burns or Byrne, a dyer in a cotton mill, and of Mary Conroy. The family may have lived off Deansgate. [5]
Feb 3, 2016 · Lizzie Burns, an illiterate Irish woman who married Engels shortly before her death. Arminta Wallace. Wed Feb 03 2016 - 10:00. Four words in a newspaper review of a 400-page...
- Arminta Wallace
May 27, 2015 · To the lives of Mary and Lizzie Burns, we have no guide. These two illiterate Irishwomen, by their actions and associations, wrote themselves into history.
- Gavin Mccrea
Burns (ca. 1822-1863), Engels’ common law wife, and then her sister Lydia ‘Lizzie’ Burns (1827-1878), who formally married Engels just before her death.
Aug 1, 2013 · Mary Burns’ younger sister, Lizzie, c.1865. Lizzie lived with Engels after her sister died, and married him a day before she herself died. No image of Mary is known to exist.
Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman who was the longtime lover of Frederick Engels, co-author of The Communist Manifesto. In Mrs. Engels, his debut novel, Gavin McCrea brings Lizzie to life with a remarkable voice that won’t soon be forgotten.
Feb 12, 2016 · A statue of Marx and Engels in Berlin: the wakening of Engels’s class consciousness was aided by his love affair with a poor Irish worker, Mary Burns, and later her sister Lizzie, subject of...
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