Edith Simcox

Edith Jemima Simcox (21 August 1844 – 15 September 1901) was a British writer, trade union activist, and early feminist. She began her writing career as a reviewer, publishing criticism under the pseudonym "H. Lawrenny," including an important review of the Memoir of Jane Austen (1870).[1] In 1875 she and Emma Paterson became the first women to attend the Trades Union Congress as delegates. She lived at 60 Dean Street, London. From 1879-1882 she was a member of the London School Board representing Westminster.[2]

A lesbian, she had an admiring and passionate, yet physically unrequited relationship with the older George Eliot.[3] George Augustus Simcox and William Henry Simcox were her brothers.

Works
  • Natural Law: An Essay in Ethics (1877)
  • George Eliot. Her life and works (1881) article in the Nineteenth Century
  • Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women and Lovers (1882) fiction
  • The Capacity of Women (1887) article in the Nineteenth Century
  • Primitive Civilizations: or Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic Communities (1894)
  • A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker (1998) autobiography, edited by Constance M. Fulmer and Margaret E. Barfield
gollark: > Look m8 all I want to be is happyIf you think you will be better off without technology, you can go return to monke yourself and whatnot. Enjoy.
gollark: I think this is broadly missing the point. You're bringing up one apparently bad result of technological progress and ignoring all the really good but less obvious (because they faded into the background) things.
gollark: Strugglig to survive is not *actually* very nice and something I would like to do?
gollark: Generally lower mental health is considered worse. Consider the analogy to health.
gollark: Mental health is lower...?

References
  1. Looser, Devoney (2017). The Making of Jane Austen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 148. ISBN 1421422824.
  2. "London School Board Elections". Daily News. 29 November 1879.
  3. Bodenheimer, Rosemarie (1994), The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0-8014-8184-8

Further reading

  • K. A. McKenzie (1961) Edith Simcox and George Eliot
  • Rosemarie Bodenheimer, 'Autobiography in Fragments: The Elusive Life of Edith Simcox', Victorian Studies 44 (Spring 2002): 399-422
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