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Lydia "Lizzie" Burns (1827 – 12 September 1878) was a working-class Irish woman, best known as a long-term partner and wife of Friedrich Engels.〔〔 Lizzie Burns was a daughter of Michael Burns or Byrne, a dyer in a cotton mill, and of Mary Conroy. The family may have lived off Deansgate.〔 Her mother died in 1835, and her father remarried a year later.〔 Lizzie had an elder sister Mary (1823–1863), a lifelong partner of Engels until her sudden death of a heart disease. Mary Burns and Engels considered marriage a bourgeois institution and never married. In the 1850s, when Mary Burns and Engels lived in Ardwick, Lizzie stayed with them as a housekeeper, and after her sister's death eventually became Engels' partner. In the 1870s they lived openly as a couple in London, with Lizzie's niece, Mary Ellen (known as Pumps), as a housekeeper.〔〔 Both Lizzie and her sister were known as formally illiterate yet intelligent women, with strong working-class ties.〔 They showed Engels the actual conditions of the factory employers in Britain.〔 Eleanor Marx wrote that〔 In early September 1878 Burns fell seriously ill with some kind of tumor,〔 and to please her religious beliefs, Engels married her.〔 She died hours later. Her death made a strong impression on Engels. He later wrote about her:〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lizzie Burns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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