A Nineteenth-Century ‘Womanist’ on Gender Issues: Edith Simcox in Her Autobiography of a Shirtmaker

Abstract

Analyzes the work of Simcox, a respected public figure who kept a private journal from 1876 to 1900 in which she recorded her activities as scholar, reformer, and businesswoman, as well as secrets of her unrequited love for George Eliot and her observations on gender issues.