Edith Ellis
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| Born | Edith Oldham Lees 1861 Cheshire, England |
| Died | September 1916 |
| Spouse(s) | Havelock Ellis |
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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.
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 pair 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 Ellis 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. 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.[3]
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[edit] 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)
[edit] References
- ^ Doan, Laura; Garrity, Jane (2006). Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 184. ISBN 140396498X. http://books.google.com/books?id=iTlGvGBMxBwC&pg=PA183&dq=%22Edith+Ellis%22+lesbian&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SrE9T7amCNDegQfkt_WuCA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Edith%20Ellis%22%20lesbian&f=false.
- ^ Pettis, Ruth. "Ellis, Havelock". glbtq. http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/ellis_h.html. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
- ^ Facscimile of James Hinton: A Sketch, 1918, by Mrs. Havelock Ellis.
[edit] Further reading
- Grosskurth, Phyllis (1980). Havelock Ellis: A Biography. New York: Random House.
[edit] External links
- "Edith Ellis". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1268. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
