This chapter explores the biography of women translators at the end of the 19th century. Eleanor Marx was the daughter of Karl Marx and executor of her father’s estate as well as a political activist; George Egerton made a name for herself as a fighter for women’s rights. Strümper-Krobb refrains from employing the biographism otherwise applied to these two translators, which links their translation activities mainly to their private lives. Instead, she relates their translations of Scandinavian literature to their positioning in the literary and political landscape. This creates a more differentiated picture of the two translators, which also helps to explain their translational strategies.