In an intentional rejection of bourgeois values, the two never married. Scandalously for a man of his background, he had a long-term relationship with an Irish, working-class woman whom he met while working for one of his family’s businesses in Manchester.Īccounts of their relationship credit Mary Burns with guiding Engels through miserable corners of the city and providing him with insights necessary for the development of The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. The son of wealthy textile manufacturers, Friedrich Engels enjoyed the good life that fortune afforded him, shared his wealth (including, famously, to support Karl Marx’s writing), and (mostly) rebelled against the bourgeois values which he was expected to embody.
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