Havelock Ellis

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Standard Name: Ellis, Havelock

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Education Muriel Box
MB early learned to read for herself (with some help from Reading Without Tears, a mid-Victorian textbook by Favell Lee Bevan, later Mrs Mortimer ) because her parents were often too busy to satisfy...
Friends, Associates Bryher
Bryher and sexologist Havelock Ellis began a twenty-year association. This was encouraged by H. D. , who knew of their mutual interest in depictions of cross-dressing women in Elizabethan drama.
Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, http://Rutherford HSS.
67 and n68
Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins.
287
Leisure and Society Bryher
Carrying a letter of introduction from Havelock Ellis , Bryher met Sigmund Freud in Vienna.
Bryher,. The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs. Collins.
244-5
Travel Bryher
In the spring of 1920, Bryher and H. D. began an extended holiday in Greece and Crete. They were accompanied by sexologist Havelock Ellis , with whom they had first associated in 1918.
Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, http://Rutherford HSS.
67, 186, 283
Occupation Nancy Cunard
Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink,
Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company.
69
but the Hours Press became...
Friends, Associates George Egerton
After the success of her Keynotes, GE became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis but called W. B. Yeats a poseur.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
34
Friends, Associates Michael Field
They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
66
(When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...
Textual Production Michael Field
This book inaugurated the literary partnership of the two women which lasted for decades. They give a glimpse, in a letter of 1886 to Havelock Ellis , into the way they negotiated the collaborative process:...
Friends, Associates Mary Gawthorpe
Travel H. D.
H. D. and Bryher departed on a long-anticipated journey to Greece and Crete with Havelock Ellis .
Aldington, Richard, and H. D. “Introduction and Commentary”. Richard Aldington and H.D.: The Later Years in Letters, edited by Caroline Zilboorg, Manchester University Press, pp. 1 - 14; various pages.
2
Friends, Associates H. D.
In the 1920s, while HD and Bryher were living rootlessly, sometimes in London, sometimes in Europe, HD's list of acquaintances grew to include Gertrude Stein , Alice B. Toklas , Ernest Hemingway , James Joyce
Health H. D.
HD was referred to Freud by her previous therapist, Hanns Sachs . Before agreeing to take her on as a patient and student, Freud read her writings, as well as those of D. H. Lawrence
Publishing Radclyffe Hall
The Well was published with a Commentary by Havelock Ellis in which he claimed that it was the first English novel which presents, in a completely faithful and uncompromising form, one particular aspect of sexual...
Textual Features Radclyffe Hall
The Well of Loneliness is a bildungsroman about Stephen Gordon, a narrow-hipped, wide-shouldered
Hall, Radclyffe, and Havelock Ellis. The Well of Loneliness. Anchor Books.
13
young woman, so named because her father had wanted a boy. The novel details the process of Stephen's growing up and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Nina Hamnett
This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England,
Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate.
38
and the later course of the book remains disordered, offering the same flow of...

Timeline

1888: Eleanor Marx's translation of An Enemy of...

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1888

Eleanor Marx 's translation of An Enemy of the People by Ibsen appeared in The Pillars of Society and Other Plays, edited by Havelock Ellis .

1894: Havelock Ellis' Man and Woman: A Study of...

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1894

Havelock Ellis ' Man and Woman: A Study of Human Secondary Sexual Characteristics, which investigated gender differences, was published in London.

1896: Havelock Ellis's Studies in the Psychology...

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1896

Havelock Ellis 's Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Inversion was published first in German, in Leipzig, when no British publisher would take it.

1897: With her publication of Grains of Sense,...

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1897

With her publication of Grains of Sense, philosopher Victoria, Lady Welby , shifted from theology towards a more academic and analytic study of meaning.

1897-1910: Havelock Ellis published Studies in the Psychology...

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1897-1910

Havelock Ellis published Studies in the Psychology of Sex, in 6 volumes. Volume one, Sexual Inversion, had appeared in German a year before its appearance in English.

31 May 1898: George Bedborough, secretary of the Legitimation...

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31 May 1898

George Bedborough , secretary of the Legitimation League which sought to change the law to improve the position of illegitimate children, was arrested, largely in an attempt to damage the League through him.

30 October 1898: George Bedborough avoided trial for publishing...

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30 October 1898

George Bedborough avoided trial for publishing an obscene libel (regarding volumes in Havelock Ellis 's series Studies in the Psychology of Sex, and the Legitimation League 's journal The Adult) by pleading guilty...

1910: Havelock Ellis's sixth volume of the series...

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1910

Havelock Ellis 's sixth volume of the series Studies in the Psychology of Sex was the earliest to be published in Britain.

1918: Havelock Ellis published two sexological...

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1918

Havelock Ellis published two sexological another essays in the same volume: The Erotic Rights of Women and The Objects of Marriage.

1928: The seventh volume of Havelock Ellis's Studies...

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1928

The seventh volume of Havelock Ellis 's Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies was published.

1928: The World Sexual Reform League was established...

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1928

The World Sexual Reform League was established to try to build up knowledge and awareness of sexuality and sexual practices.

2 June 1942: The criminal trial by jury of Dr Eustace...

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2 June 1942

The criminal trial by jury of Dr Eustace Chesser for his educational book Love without Fear began; he was charged with publishing an obscene libel.

Texts

Ibsen, Henrik. “Note”. The Pillars of Society and Other Plays, edited by Havelock Ellis, translated by. William Archer et al., Walter Scott, 1888, p. xxxi.
Hall, Radclyffe, and Havelock Ellis. The Well of Loneliness. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Hall, Radclyffe, and Havelock Ellis. The Well of Loneliness. Anchor Books, 1990.