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    Eleanor Marx and Edith Lanchester

    Colleagues,
    I have completed work on my Ripper novel and have begun researching my second book about Eleanor Marx, her lover, Edward Aveling, and her secretary, Edith Lanchester. I write to ask your help in locating information about them. Specifically, I need to find the inquest report of Eleanor's death, together with any obituaries. I am also looking for newspaper articles about Lanchester's involuntary commitment to a mental institution. Not knowing London newspapers well, and living in America, I am uncertain how to troll those files for such information. Can anyone point me toward the needed documents. As always, I appreciate your help.
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    You may find this helpful. It's from the Cornishman - Thursday 11 August 1898:
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      And another more detailed story in the York Herald - Thursday 05 January 1899:
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        Eleanor Marx Suicide - includes some inquest testimony. Leek Post & Times and Cheadle News & Times and Moorland Advertiser - Saturday 09 April 1898:
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          Edit Lanchester article - Friday 01 November 1895 , Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail , Durham, Englan
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            Edith Lanchester

            Dundee Courier - Wednesday 30 October 1895
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              Editt Lanchester

              Portsmouth Evening News - Wednesday 30 October 1895
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                Edith Lanchester

                Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 30 October 1895
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                  Part of this book is online, and in the notes at the end there is a list of newspapers which reported the inquest :

                  Eleanor Marx
                  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g2nCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA437&lpg=PA437&dq=eleanor+marx+inquest+records&source=bl&ots=jIIqzi145c&sig=E52MrEOF07foE6A5NoJYahAQpAQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiShqLN-bHKAhXLOBQKHYKxBAIQ6AEIQzAH#v=onepage&q=eleanor%20marx%20inquest%20records&f=false
                  Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions. For years she worked tirelessly for her father, Karl Marx, as personal secretary and researcher. Later she edited many of his key political works, and laid the foundations for his biography. But foremost among her achievements was her pioneering feminism. For her, sexual equality was a necessary precondition for a just society. Drawing strength from her family and their wide circle, including Friedrich Engels and Wilhelm Liebknecht, Eleanor Marx set out into the world to make a difference - her favourite motto: 'Go ahead!' With her closest friends - among them, Olive Schreiner, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, Will Thorne and William Morris - she was at the epicentre of British socialism. She was also the only Marx to claim her Jewishness. But her life contained a deep sadness: she loved a faithless and dishonest man, the academic, actor and would-be playwright Edward Aveling. Yet despite the unhappiness he brought her, Eleanor Marx never wavered in her political life, ceaselessly campaigning and organising until her untimely end, which - with its letters, legacies, secrets and hidden paternity - reads in part like a novel by Wilkie Collins, and in part like the modern tragedy it was. Rachel Holmes has gone back to original sources to tell the story of the woman who did more than any other to transform British politics in the nineteenth century, who was unafraid to live her contradictions.

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