Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Edith J. Simcox
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Standard Name: Simcox, Edith J.
Birth Name: Edith Jemima Simcox
Pseudonym: H. Lawrenny
Pseudonym: E. J. Simcox
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.
Her younger husband wrote that he was stunned by the frightful suddenness of her death.
qtd. in
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
379
She was buried in Highgate Cemetery, London; the large attendance at the funeral included her estranged brother Isaac
Family and Intimate relationships
Rhoda Broughton
RB
left no evidence as to her possible sexual orientation or erotic relationships. A number of critics (notably Michael Sadleir
) have suggested that an early unhappy love affair prompted her frequently cynical representations of...
Friends, Associates
George Eliot
At the beginning of February GE
had already been hoping that her friendship with Parkes (a dear, ardent, honest creature) would be close.
qtd. in
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
95
A couple of years later Parkes went against her...
Though the reviews were universally laudatory in their general tone, GE
found them disheartening. Edith J. Simcox
, reviewing the book as H. Lawrenny for the Academy in the month following publication, asserted Middlemarch marks...
Reception
George Eliot
Many friends of GE
including Edith J. Simcox
, plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight
, believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes
for his tireless protection of GE
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Texts
Simcox, Edith J. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot. Editors Fulmer, Constance M. and Margaret E. Barfield, Garland, 1998.
Simcox, Edith J. “Eight Years of Co-Operative Shirtmaking”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
15
, pp. 1037-54.
Simcox, Edith J. Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women, and Lovers. Trübner, 1882.
Simcox, Edith J. Natural Law: An Essay in Ethics. Trübner, 1877.
Fulmer, Constance M. et al. “Preface, Introduction and Editorial Materials”. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot, Garland, 1998, pp. xi - xvii, 1.
Simcox, Edith J. Primitive Civilizations. Swan Sonnenschein, 1894, 2 vols.
Simcox, Edith J. Primitive Civilizations. Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2 vols., http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Simcox, Edith J. “Review of Le Fellah: souvenirs de lEgypte by Edmond F. V. About”. The Academy, pp. 6-7.
Simcox, Edith J. “Review of Middlemarch by George Eliot”. The Academy, pp. 1-4.
Simcox, Edith J. “The Capacity of Women”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
22
, pp. 391-02.
Simcox, Edith J. “Women’s Work and Women’s Wages”. Longman’s Magazine, Vol.
10
, pp. 252-67.
Simcox, Edith J. “Women’s Work and Women’s Wages”. Prose by Victorian Women, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland, 1996, pp. 566-82.