From theislandwiki This article by Philip Stevens was first published in the 1987 Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise Marx and Engels During the Victorian period Jersey gradually acquired a reputation as a spa and health resort. It was here that England sent her delicate chests, as Victor Hugo put it. Two visitors who regularly fled the effects of the English climate were Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Though dedicated to the Revolution, which they thought was historically inevitable, they lived a bourgeois life: some comforts, servants, money, holidays. They also shared bourgeois views on the 'lesser breeds without the law' and, as will be seen, sneered at the people of Jersey, at least in private correspondence, whether they were conservative or radical. Engels' illness In 1857 Engels was looking for a resort to ease his ill-health. He went first to Waterloo, near Liverpool, to be by the sea; but he still felt like death. Marx, having consulted 'all the books' in English, French and German, concluded that Engels should take iron, whatever his doctor, Heckscher, might say. He advised Engels not to go back to his office, to avoid a relapse. Engels obediently took iron iodide (and cod liver oil) but only felt worse, though he did find that taking baths reduced the inflammation. He thought of going to a 'vigorous' bathing station like the Isle of Man and then moving on to the Isle of Wight. Marx replied that the Isle of Man was distinguished only by its smell and that Engels should go to the best place in England for his complaint, Hastings. The Isle of Wight almost cured Engels, but he wrote to Marx from Ryde to invite him to join him in Brighton to cross to Jersey. Why did Engels choose Jersey? No doubt because an ailing acquaintance, Conrad Schramm, who had gone there on 20 September, recommended the climate. Marx said he might come to Brighton, and Engels.
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