Edith Ellis
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For the American actress and playwright, see Edith Ellis (playwright).
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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.
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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[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
- ^ 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.
