Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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H. G. Wells
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Standard Name: Wells, H. G.
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | The novel's initial favourable reviews came from an earlier generation of authors, including George Moore
, A. E. Housman
, Thomas Hardy
, Arnold Bennett
, J. M. Barrie
, and H. G. Wells
... |
| Leisure and Society | Violet Hunt | VH
hosted luncheons for Radclyffe Hall
, Bram Stoker
, H. G. Wells
and others at the Writers' Club
in Bruton Street. She later claimed: It was the first really literary and journalistic women's... |
| Leisure and Society | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After her schooling at St Leonard's
and before her brief time at Oxford
, Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Hunt | VH
was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Frances Brooke | |
| Health | Dorothy Richardson | |
| Health | Rebecca West | During a trip to France and Spain with her mother, RW
was in suicidal anguish over her conflicted relationship with H. G. Wells
. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 26-7 |
| Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba
writes that try as [EB
] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 148 |
| Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | In FinlandRF
met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim
. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell. 302 |
| Friends, Associates | Ford Madox Ford | Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown
after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells
, Joseph Conrad |
| Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | VL
initiated a friendship with H. G. Wells
with a letter admiring his novels. They ended this friendship at the outset of World War I because of diverging political views. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 280-1, 290 |
| Friends, Associates | Pamela Frankau | Her aunt Eliza Aria
introduced the very young PF
to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike
and writers Michael Arlen
and Osbert Sitwell
. Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson. 133-4 |
| Friends, Associates | Berta Ruck | BR
developed a close personal friendship with the writer E. Nesbit
(mother of her art-student friend Iris Bland
). They vacationed together at Grez-sur-Marne in France, and Nesbit stayed for a week with Ruck's... |
| Friends, Associates | Amber Reeves | AR
's parents' circle of friends quickly grew to include most of the Fabians: Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, Edith Nesbit
and her husband Hubert Bland
, George Bernard Shaw
and H. G. Wells
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Pember Reeves |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Her affair with Wells
ended after the miscarriage, but they remained friends until his death in August 1946. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 373-5 |
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