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{{Short description|English writer and women's rights activist (1861–1916)}} | |||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
[[File:Edith Lees | [[File:Edith Lees and Havelock Ellis (31909059920).jpg|thumb|Edith Lees & Havelock Ellis]] | ||
Ellis was born on 9 March 1861 in [[Newton Heath|Newton]], [[Lancashire]]. She was the only child of Samuel Oldham Lees, a landowner, and his wife Mary Laetitia, née Bancroft. She was born prematurely after her mother sustained a head injury during pregnancy and she died when Ellis was an infant. In December 1868, her father married Margaret Ann (Minnie) Faulkner and in time she had a younger half-brother.<ref name=odnb>{{Cite web|title=Ellis [née Lees], Edith Mary Oldham (1861–1916), writer, lecturer, and socialist|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-90000369546|access-date=2021-06-24|website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2020|language=en|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000369546|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|last1=Jenkins|first1=Lyndsey}}</ref> She did not get on well with her father or his new wife. She was educated at a convent school in 1873 until her father realised that she was taking a strong interest in the Catholic faith. She was removed from the school and sent to another.<ref name=odnb/> | Ellis was born on 9 March 1861 in [[Newton Heath|Newton]], [[Lancashire]]. She was the only child of Samuel Oldham Lees, a landowner, and his wife Mary Laetitia, née Bancroft. She was born prematurely after her mother sustained a head injury during pregnancy and she died when Ellis was an infant. In December 1868, her father married Margaret Ann (Minnie) Faulkner and in time she had a younger half-brother.<ref name=odnb>{{Cite web|title=Ellis [née Lees], Edith Mary Oldham (1861–1916), writer, lecturer, and socialist|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-90000369546|access-date=2021-06-24|website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2020|language=en|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000369546|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|last1=Jenkins|first1=Lyndsey}}</ref> She did not get on well with her father or his new wife. She was educated at a convent school in 1873 until her father realised that she was taking a strong interest in the Catholic faith. She was removed from the school and sent to another.<ref name=odnb/> | ||
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She joined the [[Fellowship of the New Life]] and she briefly worked with [[Ramsay MacDonald]] when they both served as secretaries to the Fellowship.<ref name=odnb/> She met [[Havelock Ellis]] at a meeting in 1887.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Doan|first1=Laura|title=Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture|year=2006|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=New York|isbn=9781403984425|url={{google books|id=oWDHAAAAQBAJ|page=184|keywords=Edith Ellis lesbian|plainurl=yes}}|last2=Garrity|first2= Jane|page=184}}</ref> The couple married in November 1891. | She joined the [[Fellowship of the New Life]] and she briefly worked with [[Ramsay MacDonald]] when they both served as secretaries to the Fellowship.<ref name=odnb/> She met [[Havelock Ellis]] at a meeting in 1887.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Doan|first1=Laura|title=Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture|year=2006|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=New York|isbn=9781403984425|url={{google books|id=oWDHAAAAQBAJ|page=184|keywords=Edith Ellis lesbian|plainurl=yes}}|last2=Garrity|first2= Jane|page=184}}</ref> The couple married in November 1891. | ||
From the beginning, their marriage was unconventional; she was openly [[lesbian]]{{ | From the beginning, their marriage was unconventional; she was openly [[lesbian]]{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} and at the end of the [[honeymoon]] Ellis went back to his bachelor rooms. She had several affairs with women, which her husband was aware of.<ref>{{cite web|last = Pettis|first = Ruth|title = Ellis, Havelock|publisher = glbtq.com|url = http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/ellis_h.html|access-date = 2008-06-11|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140327172518/http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/ellis_h.html|archive-date = 2014-03-27}}</ref> Their [[open marriage]] was the central subject in Havelock Ellis's [[autobiography]], ''My Life'' (1939). | ||
[[File:Lily, 1902.jpg|thumb|Lily Kirkpatrick, 1902]] | [[File:Lily, 1902.jpg|thumb|Lily Kirkpatrick, 1902]] | ||
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Edith Mary Oldham Ellis (née Lees; 9 March 1861 – 14 September 1916) was an English writer and women's rights activist. She was married to the early sexologist Havelock Ellis.
Biography
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Ellis was born on 9 March 1861 in Newton, Lancashire. She was the only child of Samuel Oldham Lees, a landowner, and his wife Mary Laetitia, née Bancroft. She was born prematurely after her mother sustained a head injury during pregnancy and she died when Ellis was an infant. In December 1868, her father married Margaret Ann (Minnie) Faulkner and in time she had a younger half-brother.[1] She did not get on well with her father or his new wife. She was educated at a convent school in 1873 until her father realised that she was taking a strong interest in the Catholic faith. She was removed from the school and sent to another.[1]
She joined the Fellowship of the New Life and she briefly worked with Ramsay MacDonald when they both served as secretaries to the Fellowship.[1] She met Havelock Ellis at a meeting in 1887.[2] The couple married in November 1891.
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Her first novel, Seaweed: A Cornish Idyll, was published in 1898.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Around this time Edith began a relationship with Lily Kirkpatrick,[4] an Irish artist based in St Ives; Kirkpatrick died in June 1903.[5]
Ellis had a nervous breakdown in March 1916 and died of diabetes that September. She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. James Hinton: a Sketch, her biography of surgeon James Hinton, was published posthumously in 1918.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Works
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- 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)
- The Mothers (1915)
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- The New Horizon in Love and Life (1921)
References
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Further reading
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- 1861 births
- 1916 deaths
- 19th-century English women writers
- 19th-century English novelists
- 20th-century English women writers
- 20th-century English novelists
- English women's rights activists
- English feminists
- English non-fiction writers
- English women novelists
- Lesbian feminists
- English lesbian writers
- Victorian novelists
- Members of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
- Writers from Manchester
- 20th-century British women novelists
- LGBTQ people from Manchester