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A Short Biography of Henry Havelock Ellis

Author Name:

Henry Havelock Ellis

Born As:

Henry Havelock Ellis

Other Names:

Born:

24 Jul 1859

Died:

03 Oct 1939




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Psychologist and writer                          
Selected Works:

The Criminal - 1890
The New Spirit - 1890
The Nationalisation of Health - 1892
Man and Woman: A Study of Secondary and Tertiary Sexual Characteristics - 1894 - revised 1929
translator: Germinal - by Zola - 1895 - reissued 1933
Sexual Inversion - 1897 - with J.A. Symonds
Affirmations - 1898
The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, Auto-Erotism - 1900
The Nineteenth Century - 1900
Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Love and Pain, The Sexual Impulse in Women - 1903
A Study of British Genius - 1904
Sexual Selection in Man - 1905
Erotic Symbolism, The Mechanism of Detumescence, The Psychic State in Pregnancy - 1906
The Soul of Spain - 1908
Sex in Relation to Society - 1910
The Problem of Race-Regeneration - 1911
The World of Dreams - 1911
The Task of Social Hygiene - 1912
Impressions and Comments - 1914–1924 - 3 vols.
Essays in War-Time - 1916
The Philosophy of Conflict - 1919
On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue - 1921
Kanga Creek: An Australian Idyll - 1922
Little Essays of Love and Virtue - 1922
The Dance of Life - 1923
Sonnets, with Folk Songs from the Spanish - 1925
Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies - 1928
The Art of Life - 1929 - selected and arranged by Mrs. S. Herbert
More Essays of Love and Virtue - 1931
James Hinton: Life in Nature - editor - 1931
Views and Reviews - 1932
Psychology of Sex - 1933
ed.: Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, by Walter Savage Landor - 1933
Chapman - 1934
My Confessional - 1934
Questions of Our Day - 1934
From Rousseau to Proust - 1935
Selected Essays - 1936
Poems - 1937 - selected by John Gawsworth; pseudonym of T. Fytton Armstrong
Love and Marriage - 1938 - with others
My Life - 1939
Sex Compatibility in Marriage - 1939
From Marlowe to Shaw - 1950 - ed. by J. Gawsworth
The Genius of Europe - 1950
Sex and Marriage - 1951 - ed. by J. Gawsworth
The Unpublished Letters of Havelock Ellis to Joseph Ishill - 1954                          
Mother  Susannah Mary Wheatley
Father Edward Peppen Ellis, five children, four sisters who never married.
Wife Edith Lees                          
Pioneer work on sexuality.                          
Eddith Lees was a lesbian.
It is said that Henry Havelock Ellis suffered from impotence until the age of 60.