The new horizon in love and life / by Mrs. Havelock Ellis, with a preface by Edward Carpenter and an introduction by Marguerite Tracy.

  • Edith Ellis
Date:
1921
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Credit: The new horizon in love and life / by Mrs. Havelock Ellis, with a preface by Edward Carpenter and an introduction by Marguerite Tracy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    xxiv INTRODUCTION spontaneously would, tell me everything my heart burned to know. But she moved so fast, so like the wind, and I was so bound by my itinerary, as she was bound 'probably by hers, that I could never overtake her even by accident. Once I missed her by three hours. And once, at a Club, I believe, by three minutes. But I overtook her sayings which lived behind her, flashes of wit and of scandalous daring, thrusts of humour. I even almost reconstructed one of her lectures from the waif words I picked up after a Club dinner when the girls were just among themselves. Edith Ellis did not shed a slipper, like Cinderella, for me to build her up by, but I caught these fragments of her talk, and I saw her portrait everywhere : that wonderful, sensitive, splendidly alive and strong young face with its cropped head of beautiful thick curly brown hair, tinged with grey. And I came to have the feeling that it was not a woman I was pursuing, but an incarna¬ tion of youth ; boyish in a way ; utterly free from the trappings and trammellings of what she would herself call femininities ; escaped from our earthy im¬ prisonment of the spirit, free — and impish — and imperishable. The women she addressed seemed quite ready for her message, most of them. Indeed, they appeared to her, as she passed among them, to have the New Life at their very doors. But after she had passed, I heard them marvelling among themselves ; turning over her sayings ; discussing, musing together more like a group
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