For a time she taught night school courses for women in Philadelphia and then entered the University of Zurich in Switzerland, which was one of the few institutions at the time that would grant a doctorate degree to a woman. In Zurich she came to know a number of young Russians and Poles who had been forced to leave their native countries because of their radical political views, and she married one of them, Lazare Wischnewetzky, in 1884. He was a Polish-Russian physician, and they had three children together: Margaret, Nicholas, and John Bartram.
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Kelley's first major career achievement came thanks to that Zurich circle of political outcasts. She met Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), the German-born political philosopher who, with Karl Marx (1818–1883), co-authored the landmark 1848 work The Communist Manifesto. Engels asked her to translate an earlier book of his, The Conditions of the Working-class in England in 1844, into its first English edition in 1887. The nonfiction work described in horrific detail the living and working conditions of the Industrial Revolution's labor class and raised public awareness that some government regulation of business was needed.
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