Edith Ellis

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Edith Ellis
Born Edith Oldham Lees
1861
Cheshire, England
Died September 1916
Spouse(s) Havelock Ellis

Edith Mary Oldham Ellis (née Lees; 1861–1916) was a British writer and women's rights activist. She was married to the early sexologist Havelock Ellis.

Her mother died when she was young and she was sent to a Manchester convent in 1873. She joined the Fellowship of the New Life and met Havelock Ellis in 1887 at a meeting.[1] The couple married 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 her husband was aware of.[2] 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. [3] Ellis had a nervous breakdown in March of 1916 and died of diabetes that September. James Hinton: a Sketch, her biography of surgeon James Hinton was published posthumously in 1918.[4]

Works

  • Seaweed: A Cornish Idyll (1898)
  • My Cornish Neighbours (1906)
  • Kit's Woman (U.S. title: Steve's Woman) (1907)
  • The Subjection of Kezia (1908)
  • Attainment (1909)
  • Three Modern Seers (1910)
  • The Imperishable Wing (1911)
  • The Lover's Calendar: An Anthology (ed) (1912)
  • Love-Acre (1914)
  • Love in Danger (1915)
  • James Hinton: A Sketch (1918)
  • The New Horizon in Love and Life (1921)

References

  1. ↑ Doan, Laura; Garrity, Jane (2006). Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 184. ISBN 1-4039-6498-X. 
  2. ↑ Pettis, Ruth. "Ellis, Havelock". glbtq. Retrieved 2008-06-11. 
  3. ↑ 'Seaweed' http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/womenLit/new_women/Out_of_Wedlock_L.htm
  4. ↑ Facscimile of James Hinton: A Sketch, 1918, by Mrs. Havelock Ellis.

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