Other Links

    On this page you will find a list of the external links from all of the Simcox pages, some other links that may be useful for further research on related subjects, and a bibliography of works on Edith Simcox.

Literature and Art of the Nineteenth Century

• Brown Women Writer's Project (some Victorian literature and Renaissance women writers)
• Nineteenth Century Drama Bibliography
• Nineteenth Century Literature Links
• Nineteenth Century Periodicals
• Nineteenth Century Playtext Database (little-known plays from the Victorian era)
• Victoria Research Web (information on journals, newspapers, and writings of the day)
• Victorian Art (background on art of the period; information on where to visit in London)
• Victorian Women Writer's Project

Trade Union Movement

• History of Trade Union Movement (information on members, unions, legislation, issues, events, journals, and newspapers during Simcox's time)
• How Much is That? (determine the value of money in today's terms; e.g., 8 pounds, 7 shillings in the year 1870 is equivalent to 406 pounds, 57 shillings in the year 2000.)
• Trades Union Congress official site (current information about the unions in the U.K.)

Women's Suffrage

• Images (art, buttons, advertisements, etc. related to Women's Suffrage)
• The National Women's History Project
• Social History:  Women's Suffrage (illustrations, postcards, and pictures of women's suffrage movement advertisements, marches, and advocates)
• Suffrage History (extensive list and description of leaders/contributors, issues, pressure groups, reform acts, and strategies)
• The Women's Property Act

Fabian Society

• Fabian Society (history and background)
• The Fabian Society site (information about the current organization)

Industrial Remuneration Conference

• "How to Cause Wealth to be More Equally Distributed" (article by Alfred Russel Wallace from the Conference)

Socialism

• The London Socialist Party
• Socialism and the Labor Movement (Pre-Socialist Radicals; Socialist writers, philosophers, and political organizations; labor journals and newspapers; background information)
• Socialist Party site

Miscellaneous

• The Victorian Period (information about daily life in Victorian England)

Other Readings about Edith Simcox

Biography:

                Greenwood  Press, 1978.

Other References:

                Press, 1986.  147-199.

Haight, ed., The George Eliot Letters.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. VIII: xviii-xix; IX: 190-324.

Patricia Hollis, Women in Public 1850-1900: Documents of the Victorian Women's Movement.  London:

                Allen & Unwin, 1979.

Diderick Rolle-Hansen, The Academy, 1869-1879: Intellectuals in Revolt.  Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & 

                Bagger, 1957.

Geoffrey Tillotson, A View of Victorian Literature.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. 

Laurie Zierer, "Edith Jemima Simcox," in Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology, edited by Andrea 

                Broomfield and Sally Mitchell.  London & New York: Garland, 1996.  523-525.

(Some of these references taken from the entry on Edith Jemima Simcox on the Literature Resource Center site, a part of Gale Group, which is a Thomson Corporation Company.)

Books, Articles, and Conferences by Constance M. Fulmer:

A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker.  New York

                and London:  Garland, 1998.  Edited with Margaret E. Barfield.  View this book on Amazon.com 

George Eliot:  A Reference Guide.  Boston:  G.K. Hall, 1977.  An annotated bibliography with more than

                2,000 entries. 

Recent Articles:

"Edith Simcox (1844-1901)."  Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers:  A Bio-Bibliographical Critical

                Sourcebook.  Edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom.  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press, 2000.

"Edith Simcox:  Feminist Critic and Reformer."  Victorian Periodicals Review 31.1 (Spring 1998):  105-121.

"A Nineteenth-Century 'Womanist' on Gender Issues:  Edith Simcox in Her Autobiography of a Shirtmaker." 

                Nineteenth-Century Prose 26.2 (Fall 1999):  110-126.

Review of The Critical Response to George Eliot edited by Karen L. Pangello for George Eliot--George

                Henry Lewes Studies.  September 1995:  83-85.

Scholarly Presentations:

"A Nineteenth-Century 'Womanist on Gender Issues:  Edith Simcox in Her Autobiography of a Shirtmaker,"

                Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference, Michigan State University,

                East Lansing, Michigan, April 1994.

"An Ordinary Mind on An Ordinary Day:  The Private Life of Edith Simcox," National Women Studies

                Association Conference, Simmons College, Boston, June 2000.

"Bringing Edith Simcox Out of Silence Through Collaborative Editing," National Women Studies Association

                Conference, Simmons College, Boston, June 2000.

"Edith J. Simcox:  British Victorian Scholar and Social Reformer," Conference of the Western Association of

                Women Historians, The Huntington Library, Pasadena, June 2000.

"Edith J. Simcox:  Feminist, Scholar, Reformer and Economist," Conference on Wealth, Poverty and the

                Victorians, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Great Britain, July 1999.

"Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker.  A Narrative of Crossing Borders in Victorian Britain,"

                National Women's  Association Conference, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York,

                June 1996.

"Introducing Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women, and Lovers, 1882:  Autobiographical Fiction by Edith J.

                Simcox (1844-1901),"  Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference,

                University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, March 1996.

"Love and Pain:  Women's Friendships in Edith J. Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker," Eighteenth

                and Nineteenth Century British Women Writers Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel

                Hill, March 1998.

"Reflections on Editing Edith Simcox's Autobiography of A Shirtmaker," Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century

                British Women Writers Conference," Notre Dame University, West Bend, Indiana, March 1995.

"Women Who Practiced What They Preached:  The Victorian Periodical Press As A Pulpit For Advocating

                Employment For Women," Conference on Victorian Encounters:  Publishers, Editors, and

                Readers, Birkbeck College, University of  London, July 2000.