Eleonor on reading, at 6.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/bio/marx/eleanor-literature.htm From the ever useful Marx/Engels Internet Archive Marx Biography Biographical Notes on Marx’s Literary Interestsby Eleanor Marx-AvelingAbstractSource: Marx Engels On Literature and Art, Progress Publishers, 1976;Transcribed: by Andy Blunden. And so many and many a year later Marx told stories to his children. To my sisters — I was then too small — he told tales as they went for walks, and these tales were measured by miles not chapters. “Tell us another mile,” was the cry of the two girls. For my own part, of the many wonderful tales Mohr told me, the most wonderful, the most delightful one, was “Hans Röckle.” It went on for months and months; it was a whole series of stories. The pity no one was there to write down these tales so full of poetry, of wit, of humour! Hans Röckle himself was a Hoffmann-like magician, who kept a toyshop, and who was always “hard up.” His shop was full of the most wonderful things — of…