Edith Jemima Simcox (1844 - 1901)

Short name Edith Jemima Simcox
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First name Edith Jemima
Birth name Simcox
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Alternative name H. Lawrenny
Date of birth 1844
Date of death 1901
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Sex Female
Place of birth England
Place of death England
Lived in England
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Education Self-educated
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Edith Jemima Simcox was ...
related to George Eliot
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Memberships Women's Trade Union League (UK)
Place(s) of Residence England
Receptions of Edith Jemima Simcox, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
- 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 - Fulmer, Constance M. and Margaret E. Barfield, eds. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker. New York and London: Garland, 1998.
British writer, trade union activist, and early feminist. In 1875 she and Emma Paterson became the first women to attend the Trades Union Congress as delegates. Information below from Fulmer/Barfield (1998): Started as a successful shirtmaker. Lived in London. Mostly self-educated. Parents were upper middle class. Connections with Emma Paterson, Annie Besant, Harriet Law, Charles Bradlaugh, William Morris etc. "The love-passion of her life was for the novelist George Eliot [...] [Simcox'] journal entries for 1877 and 1878 provide detailed accounts of the conversations on these [Sunday afternoons at the home of George Eliot and George Henry Lewes]." (p.xv) "She thoroughly enjoyed her own androgyny. She referred to having always thought of herself as "half a man" [etc.] "[...]I did not care for dolls or dress or any sort of needlework."" (pp.xvi-xvii)