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Havelock Ellis
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | |
| Cultural formation | Una Troubridge | From 29 November 1915, the day UT
and Hall consummated their love, Troubridge began to define herself as an invert, though at this point she was still married. The term invert became widely used... |
| Reception | Olive Schreiner | Cronwright dedicated the book to her friend Havelock Ellis
, whom he had previously asked to write the biography. Ellis felt unable to fulfill the request, but offered Cronwright all the information he had. Cronwright-Schreiner, S. C. The Life of Olive Schreiner. T. Fisher Unwin. fly-leaf, vii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Olive Schreiner | OS
met Havelock Ellis
when she agreed to attend a meeting of the Progressive Association
with him; they became lifelong friends. First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch. 130 |
| Author summary | Olive Schreiner | OS
was a political and social activist as well as a writer. Her biographer Liz Stanley says she was internationally probably the best-known feminist writer and theorist from the 1880s through to the 1930s. Stanley, Liz. “Encountering the Imperial and Colonial Past through Olive Schreiner’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, pp. 197-19. 198 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Olive Schreiner | She gave Havelock Ellis
a free hand to help her with the publishing arrangements. Her dedication, the only part of the publication about which she was adamant, is to A small girl-child. First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch. 191 |
| Textual Production | Olive Schreiner | According to early commemorative biographer Daisy Hobman
, Schreiner's husband was unaware that Undine existed until Havelock Ellis
gave him a copy after she died. First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch. 72-3, 84, 21, 267 |
| Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | At the Working Girls' Club in the summer of 1892, EPL
met the essayist and novelist Edith Ellis
(wife of sexologist Havelock Ellis
). She admired Edith Ellis's unconventionality and freedom, and the two women... |
| Reception | Olivia Manning | Deirdre David
has called A Scantling of Foxesan amazing tale of sadism, male obsession, and female suffering, its depiction of sexual pathology derived doubtless from Olivia's readings in Havelock Ellis
. David, Deirdre. Olivia Manning: A Woman at War. Oxford University Press. 31 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Doris Lessing | The novel opens with Martha at fifteen, reading (or planning to read) Havelock Ellis
on sex, and despising the knitting and gossip of her mother and a neighbour. It ends with her marriage, which is... |
| Cultural formation | Vernon Lee | In her biography of Lee, Vineta Colby
repeats longstanding judgments about the author's sexuality by emphasizing that she made no effort to conceal her attachments to women, Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 335 |
| Publishing | Vernon Lee | VL
's political stance was seen as dangerously unpatriotic: only a few of her essays were published by the Labour Leader, Nation, and New Statesman. In letter to Havelock Ellis
in September... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 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.
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.
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.