词条 | Edith Ellis |
释义 |
| name = Edith Ellis | image = Edith Ellis 1914.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Ellis in 1914 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Edith Mary Oldham Lees | birth_date = 1861 | birth_place = Manchester, Lancashire, England | death_date = 14 September 1916 (aged 55)[1] | death_place = Paddington, London, England | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | nationality = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = {{marriage|Havelock Ellis|November 1891|}} | partner = | children = | relatives = }} Edith Mary Oldham Ellis (née Lees; 1861 – 14 September 1916) was an English writer and women's rights activist. She was married to the early sexologist Havelock Ellis. BiographyBorn in Manchester in 1861, Ellis' mother died when she was young and she was sent to a convent in 1873. She joined the Fellowship of the New Life and met Havelock Ellis in 1887 at a meeting.[2] 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.[3] 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.{{sfn|Ellis|1898|p=}} During this period Edith began a relationship with Lily, an artist from Ireland who lived in St. Ives. Edith was devastated when Lily died from Bright's disease in June 1903.[4] Ellis had a nervous breakdown in March 1916 and died of diabetes that September. James Hinton: a Sketch, her biography of surgeon James Hinton was published posthumously in 1918.{{sfn|Ellis|1918|p=}} Works
References1. ^{{Find a Grave|1268|accessdate=17 February 2011}} 2. ^{{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}} 3. ^{{cite web|last = Pettis|first = Ruth|title = Ellis, Havelock|publisher = glbtq.com|url = http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/ellis_h.html|accessdate = 2008-06-11|deadurl = yes|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140327172518/http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/ellis_h.html|archivedate = 2014-03-27|df = }} 4. ^{{Cite web | title = Havelock Ellis | last = Simkin | first = John | work = Spartacus Educational | date = n.d. | accessdate = 2018-07-24 | url = http://spartacus-educational.com/TUhavelock.htm | quote = }} Further reading
13 : 1861 births|1916 deaths|19th-century British women writers|19th-century English novelists|20th-century British women writers|20th-century English novelists|British women's rights activists|English feminists|English non-fiction writers|English women novelists|Lesbian feminists|Lesbian writers|Victorian novelists |
随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。