Edith Mary Oldham Ellis née Lees (1861 – 1916) was a British writer and women's rights activist. She was married to the famous sexologist Havelock Ellis.
Edith Lees married Havelock Ellis in November 1891. From the beginning, their marriage was unconventional; she was openly lesbian and at the end of the honeymoon he went back to his bachelor rooms. She had several affairs with women, which Ellis was aware of.[1] Their "open marriage" was the central subject in Havelock Ellis's autobiography, My Life (1939).
Her first novel, Seaweed: A Cornish Idyll, was published in 1898. Her biography of surgeon James Hinton was published posthumously.[2]
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