Edith Mary Oldham Lees Ellis

Edith Mary Oldham Lees Ellis

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

Lees was openly lesbian. She had several affairs with women, which Ellis was aware of. [cite web|last = Pettis|first = Ruth|title = Ellis, Havelock|publisher = glbtq|url = http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/ellis_h.html|accessdate = 2008-06-11]

Works

*Seaweed: a Cornish idyll (1898)
*My Cornish Neighbours (1906)
*Kit's Woman (US: 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 (1918)
*The New Horizon In Love And Life (1921)

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