H. G. Wells

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Standard Name: Wells, H. G.
HGW began writing in his childhood and publishing just before the close of the nineteenth century. He was a journalist, novelist, historian and autobiographer, whose favourite fictional genres are science fiction on one hand and on the other realistic explorations of social and political conditions, including women's issues.

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Wealth and Poverty Dorothy Richardson
Gillian Hanscombe observes that DR lived under the pressures of near-penury
Hanscombe, Gillian. The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. Peter Owen.
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between 1902 and 1938. Richardson fully devoted herself to writing after leaving her Harley Street job in 1908, and her writing rarely paid...
Travel Rebecca West
RW spent some months in Italy with her lover, H. G. Wells .
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Travel Dorothy Richardson
After miscarrying her child by H. G. Wells , DR took a leave from her job to holiday at Pevensey in Sussex for several weeks.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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Travel Rebecca West
RW and H. G. Wells set out on a trip to Seville, Madrid, and Paris.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Travel Rebecca West
After parting with Wells , RW travelled extensively, holidaying in Italy and the south of France, and returning to the United States.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Travel Amber Reeves
AR and Wells eloped briefly to Le Touquet before Reeves' marriage was arranged and Wells went back to his family. She then spent some time lying low in an English country cottage found for her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dorothy Richardson
In The Tunnel Miriam is a young woman of twenty-one beginning her new life in London. Here and in DR 's succeeding novels, the city itself almost becomes a character. Just as Richardson did...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press.
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living writers into two...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edith Sitwell
In tone Taken Care Of is sometimes bitter or self-justifying, but it is a virtuoso performance. ES goes into detail about her childhood and her friendships, quotes lavishly from her poems, and ends on her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth von Arnim
As well as dealing frankly with many of the difficulties in her married life, this book also treats her affair with H. G. Wells .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dorothy Richardson
This segment of Pilgrimage has Miriam, now twenty-eight, sharing a Bloomsbury flat with Selina Holland, a demanding spinster who disapproves of the younger woman's attachments to men. At this point, Miriam's relationship with writer Hypo...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella Hepworth Dixon
In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Philip Larkin
The latter of these, discussing a book called H. G. Wells in Love, drew two strong statements from Larkin about sexual double standards. The first was that Wells's radical sexual conduct depended on the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...

Timeline

1897: With her publication of Grains of Sense,...

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1897

With her publication of Grains of Sense, philosopher Victoria, Lady Welby , shifted from theology towards a more academic and analytic study of meaning.

2 September 1914: The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly...

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2 September 1914

The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly formed along the lines of a similar body in Germany) summoned twenty-five writers to discuss the production of texts that would boost national feeling and the war effort.

1915: H. G. Wells became vice-president of the...

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1915

H. G. Wells became vice-president of the Malthusian League .

22 June 1925: The Film Society was incorporated in London,...

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22 June 1925

The Film Society was incorporated in London, where it operated until 1939.

By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...

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By October 1926

The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
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as her biographer puts it.

23 August 1927: Two Italian immigrants to the USA, Nicola...

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23 August 1927

Two Italian immigrants to the USA, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti , were executed amid international furore for shooting dead a paymaster and a security guard outside a factory at South Braintree.

After February 1932: An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk's case...

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After February 1932

An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk 's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.

July 1945: Vannevar Bush's article on information theory...

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July 1945

Vannevar Bush 's article on information theory entitled As We May Think was published in Atlantic Monthly.

Texts

Wells, H. G. A Short History of the World. Cassell, 1922.
Wells, H. G. Ann Veronica. T. Fisher Unwin, 1909.
Wells, H. G. Experiment in Autobiography. V. Gollancz; Cresset Press, 1934.
Wells, H. G. Marriage. MacMillan, 1912.
Wells, H. G. The Invisible Man. C. Arthur Pearson, 1897.
Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau. W. Heinemann, 1896.
Wells, H. G. The New Machiavelli. John Lane, 1911.
Wells, H. G., and James Francis Horrabin. The Outline of History. Editors Barker, Ernest et al., George Newnes, 1919.
Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. W. Heinemann, 1895.
Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. W. Heinemann, 1898.
Wells, H. G. Tono-Bungay. MacMillan, 1909.