Abstract
Eleanor Marx’s life invites thought about the politics of Victorian feminism, what endures in the minds of later generations and what is forgotten. Eleanor moves in and out of the feminist pantheon—prophet of Marxism, Ibsenite new woman, trade union organiser—her elusiveness repeating her own self‐doubt and ambivalence towards feminism. This article sketches the sequence of identifications in Eleanor’s political subjectivity and some tensions between them. Virginia Woolf’s appeal to ‘find the law’ (like Antigone) encompasses Eleanor’s ambivalence, identifying it both as a perpetual theme of twentieth‐century feminist thought and of human subjectivity itself.
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