1. Edith Mary Oldham Ellis was an English writer and women's rights activist.
10 Facts About Edith Ellis
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Edith Ellis was the only child of Samuel Oldham Lees, a landowner, and his wife Mary Laetitia, nee Bancroft.
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Edith Ellis was born prematurely after her mother sustained a head injury during pregnancy and she died when Ellis was an infant.
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Edith Ellis did not get on well with her father or his new wife.
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Edith Ellis was educated at a convent school in 1873 until her father realised that she was taking a strong interest in the Catholic faith.
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Edith Ellis was removed from the school and sent to another.
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Edith Ellis joined the Fellowship of the New Life and she briefly worked with Ramsay MacDonald when they both served as secretaries to the Fellowship.
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Edith Ellis met Havelock Ellis at a meeting in 1887.
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Around this time Edith Ellis began a relationship with Lily Kirkpatrick, an Irish artist based in St Ives; Kirkpatrick died in June 1903.
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Edith Ellis had a nervous breakdown in March 1916 and died of diabetes that September.