Edith Jemima Simcox (1844 - 1901)
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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 |
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Receptions of Edith Jemima Simcox, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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- 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)