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Jenny von Westphalen
1881Dec, 2

Jenny von Westphalen

Jenny von Westphalen, German author (b. 1814)
Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen (12 February 1814 – 2 December 1881) was a German theatre critic and political activist. She married philosopher and political theorist Karl Marx in 1843.

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