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About Edith Simcox
- Edith Jemima Simcox (21 August 1844 – 15 September 1901) was a British writer, trade union activist, and early feminist.
- She began her writing career as a reviewer, publishing criticism under the pseudonym "H.
- Lawrenny," including an important review of the Memoir of Jane Austen (1870).
- In 1875 she and Emma Paterson became the first women to attend the Trades Union Congress as delegates.
- She lived at 60 Dean Street, London.
- From 1879-1882 she was a member of the London School Board representing Westminster.A lesbian, she had an admiring and passionate, yet physically unrequited relationship with the older George Eliot.
- George Augustus Simcox and William Henry Simcox were her brothers.
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