Background
Lizzie Burns was a daughter of Michael Burns or Byrne, a dyer in a cotton mill, and of Mary Conroy. Her mother died in 1835, and her father remarried a year later.
Lizzie Burns was a daughter of Michael Burns or Byrne, a dyer in a cotton mill, and of Mary Conroy. Her mother died in 1835, and her father remarried a year later.
The family may have lived off Deansgate. They showed Engels the actual conditions of the factory employers in Britain. Eleanor Marx wrote that
My wife was a real child of the Irish proletariat and her passionate devotion to the class in which she was born was worth much more to me – and helped me more in times of stress – than all the elegance of an educated, artistic middle-class bluestocking.