George Cecil Ives

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George Cecil Ives ( October 1, 1867 - June 4, 1950 ) was a British poet , writer , criminal law reformer and early LGBT activist.

Live and act

Ives was born the son of an English army officer and a Spanish nobleman. He grew up with his grandmother Emma Ives . He spent his childhood in Bentworth in Hampshire and the south of France. Ives was home taught and studied at Magdalene College of Cambridge University . During this time he began to work as a writer.

In 1892 he met Oscar Wilde at the Authors' Club in London . The following year Ives had a brief affair with the British Lord Alfred Douglas . Ives got to know various poets from Oxford through Douglas. In 1897 Ives founded the Order of Chaeronea , a secret union of homosexual men that was founded after the battle of the Sacred Company of Thebes in 338 BC. Was named. Members of the Order of Chaeronea included Charles Kains Jackson , Samuel Elsworth Cottam , Montague Summers, and John Gambril Nicholson . It is believed that Charles Robert Ashbee and AE Housman were also members.

That same year, 1897, Ives visited Edward Carpenter in Millthorpe . This was the beginning of their friendship. In 1914 Ives founded the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology together with the German Magnus Hirschfeld as well as Laurence Housman and other British people . Ives was also in lively intellectual exchange with other progressive psychologists such as Havelock Ellis and the Italian professor Cesare Lombroso . The organization devoted itself in various publications to the scientific study of sexology. In 1931 the organization was renamed the British Sexological Society . Ives was the organization's archivist and the historical papers are currently held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin .

His activities also included visiting prisons in Europe and studying criminal methods, particularly in England. For this he wrote various books. Ives spent the war years in World War II at his home on Adelaide Road in London. Ives died in England in 1950.

Works by Ives

Seals:

  • Book of Chains (1897)
  • Eros' Thrones (1900)

Non-fiction books:

  • Penal Methods in the Middle Ages (1910)
  • The Treatment of Crime (1912)
  • A History of Penal Methods: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics (1914)
  • The Sexes, Structure, & "Extra-organic" Habits of certain Animals (1918)
  • The Continued Extension of the Criminal Law (1922)
  • English Prisons Today (1922) (Prefaced by GB Shaw)
  • Graeco-Roman View of Youth (1926)
  • Obstacles to Human Progress (1939)
  • The Plight of the Adolescent

Novel:

  • The Missing Baronet (1914)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Cecil Inves  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Venn, J & J.A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10th Edition, 1922-1958@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / venn.csi.cam.ac.uk  

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SURNAME Ives, George Cecil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1867
DATE OF DEATH June 4th 1950
Place of death United Kingdom