Henry Havelock Ellis
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| Born | 1859 | ||||||||
| Died | 1939 | ||||||||
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Earlsbrook Road, Redhill, Surrey [1888] Carbis Water, Lelant, Cornwall 14 Dover Mansions, Canterbury Road, Brixton, SW9 [A63][1925] 24 Holmedene Avenue, Herne Hill, SE24 [1929] | ||||||||
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literary medical | ||||||||
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1888.11.13 proposed for election at next meeting
1925.03.24 proposed by F.C. Shrubsall, seconded by T.A. Joyce
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Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939), was an English physician, writer, Progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, including transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of his era, supported eugenics
He served as vice-president to the Eugenics Education Society
Born Croydon; died Hintlesham, Suffolk. His education was interrupted by periods away from UK with his father, a sea captain. Taught at schools in Australia 1875-9. He never became more than a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. Author of Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1910). NB. According to Who was who Ellis was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, whereas the ODNB states that his medical qualification was as above, LSA. Wife was the writer Edith Mary Oldham Lees (1861-1916).
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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) Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897–1928) six volumes (listed below). translator: Germinal (by Zola) (1895) (reissued 1933) Sexual Inversion (1897) (with J.A. Symonds)[12] Affirmations (1898) The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity, Auto-Erotism (1900)[13] The Nineteenth Century (1900) Analysis of the Sexual Impulse, Love and Pain, The Sexual Impulse in Women (1903)[14] A Study of British Genius (1904) Sexual Selection in Man (1905)[15] Erotic Symbolism, The Mechanism of Detumescence, The Psychic State in Pregnancy (1906)[16] The Soul of Spain (1908) Sex in Relation to Society (1910)[17] The Problem of Race-Regeneration (1911) The World of Dreams (1911) (new edition 1926) The Task of Social Hygiene (1912) Impressions and Comments (1914–1924) (3 vols.)[18] Essays in War-Time (1916)[19] The Philosophy of Conflict (1919) On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue (1921) Kanga Creek: An Australian Idyll (1922)[20] Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922) The Dance of Life (1923)[21] 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) ed.: James Hinton: Life in Nature (1931) Views and Reviews (1932)[22] 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)
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