Michael Perelman wrote:
> Tussy committed suicide. The daughter in Paris, Laura, died early of
> natural causes, I believe.
Eleanor (Tussy) committed suicide in London in 1898. Laura married
Paul Lafargue. She and her husband both committed suicide sometime
after 1910. I have (long ago) read a letter Lenin wrote (I forget the
recipient) in which he speaks of the shock the suicides caused in
revolutionary circles.
For information on all three sisters and their relations to the Paris
Commune,
see Yvonne Kapp, *Eleanor Marx*, Vol. 1, pages 125 forward.
Eleanor's suicide had its grounds in clinical depression but many events,
including the misdeeds of her companion, Aveling, triggered it. See
Kapp, Vol. 2 for that. Laura's suicide, on the basis of what little I have
read on it, is somewhat "suspect" in that it may reflect the way in
which male dominance can/did affect even revolutionary women -- she
may have committed suicide only because Paul's indirect pressure.
During the time of the Commune Laura was preoccupied with the
illness of one of her children. Paul Lafargue was in Paris part of the
time but was not among those captured and executed.
Carrol
