Edith J. Simcox

21 August 1844 - 15 September 1901

A writer of remarkable versatility, EJS was a prolific contributor to several major periodicals. She also published three monographic works (a series of thinly-disguised fictional vignettes, a lengthy essay on ethics, and a historical text) and penned her own fragmentary diary or autobiography. Her publishing career began during the 1870s and continued until her death in the early twentieth century.

BirthName: Edith Jemima Simcox
Pseudonyms: H. Lawrenny; E. J. Simcox

Milestones

21 August 1844

Edith Jemima Simcox was born; she was the only daughter in her family, and the youngest of three children.

McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961.

10 May 1876

EJS began writing what she calls her autobiography although its form is that of a secret diary, intending it as a record of her constancy to George Eliot .

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

July 1899

EJS 's last known writing appeared: an article entitled The Native Australian Family in the Nineteenth Century, which attempts to dispel fallacies and misinformations about Australians and their marital practices.

“19th-Century Masterfile: A Paratext Resource”. Paratext Electronic Publishing.

29 January 1900

EJS dated the final entry in her diary or Autobiography of a Shirtmaker.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

15 September 1901

EJS died of pneumonia, pleuritis, and tachycardia exhaustion at 10 Lansdowne Road, London.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Fulmer, Constance M. et al. “Preface, Introduction and Editorial Materials”. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot, Garland, 1998, pp. xi - xvii, 1.

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McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961.

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1 January 1998

EJS 's autobiography was published for the first time, as A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot : Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker, edited by Constance M. Fulmer and Margaret E. Barfield .

Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Simcox, Edith J. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot. Editors Fulmer, Constance M. and Margaret E. Barfield, Garland, 1998.

Biography

Birth and Family

21 August 1844

Edith Jemima Simcox was born; she was the only daughter in her family, and the youngest of three children.

McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961.