Edward Aveling

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Edward Bibbins Aveling (29 November 1849 – 2 August 1898) was an English comparative anatomist, botanist and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution, atheism, and socialism. He was also a journalist, editor, playwright, actor, short story writer and poet. Aveling was the author of scientific works and numerous literary and political pamphlets many that were published (and republished) by The Freethought Publishing Company; he is perhaps best known for his popular work The Student's Darwin (1881) that appeared in their 'International Freethought and Science' series; he also translated the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital and Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Aveling was elected vice-president of the National Secular Society from 1880–84, and was a member of the Democratic Federation and then in August 1884 he was elected to the executive council of the Social Democratic Federation, he was also a founding member of the Socialist League and the Independent Labour...

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