![]() Ellis enjoys a close friendship with Edith, based on their shared principles, but struggles with jealousy and his own esoteric sexual urges. ![]() Addington wants to continue his relationship with Feaver while having the respectability - and safety - of being a married man. The novel tells the story of the collaboration of Addington and Ellis and its consequences, as well as the developing relationships of the two men. ![]() He is in an unconsummated marriage to Edith, a campaigner for women’s rights and, initially at least, appears naive about her lesbianism. ![]() In his belated self-acceptance, he also wants society to become tolerant of homosexuality and believes the book will provide the historical, scientific and moral case for doing so.Įllis, who is medically qualified but now focuses on writing and research, apparently has more of a political and intellectual interest. In late-nineteenth-century London, John Addington and Henry Ellis (based on John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis) correspond with a view to writing Sexual Inversion, a book on male homosexuality.Īddington, a married father of three who has struggled to repress his homosexuality, forms a passionate relationship with a younger working-class man called Frank Feaver. The N ew Life draws on real events, but freely adapts them. ![]()
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