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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Amber Reeves
Born a New Zealander, she clearly regarded herself later in life as English. Her parents were highly educated professionals. Her mother was a suffragist, and both parents became members of the Fabian Society (founded three...
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
Family and Intimate relationships Amber Reeves
AR 's time at the London School of Economics was ended when she became pregnant as a result of a sexual liaison with H. G. Wells , which had begun while she was at Cambridge...
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...
Textual Features Amber Reeves
The heroine, Evelyn Baker, grows up in Notting Hill in London. She finds her parents and her conventional lower-middle-class home constricting; nothing is expected of her because she is just a pretty girl. She wants...
Fictionalization Amber Reeves
After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either...
Textual Production Amber Reeves
Many of AR 's papers are in family hands. Her letters to Wells are at the University of Illinois , and the Women's Library holds the text of two interviews with her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Residence Dorothy Richardson
Looking for more privacy because of her new romance with H. G. Wells , DR moved from Endsleigh Street to Woburn Walk, where she shared a flat with an acquaintance named Miss Moffatt .
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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Textual Production Henry Handel Richardson
It was substantially completed in draft before she moved in 1903 from Germany to England. There she felt that literature was at a low ebb, with an insular public which valued only utilitarian writers like...
Health Dorothy Richardson
Early in the year DR was pregnant by H. G. Wells , but by midsummer she had miscarried.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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Literary responses Henry Handel Richardson
Early reviews mixed horror (a libel on girlhood, the result of a curious mania for telling the literal truth regardless of the ordinary canons as to what is and what is not fitting for...
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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Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Richardson
Although Moffatt disapproved of her affair with Wells , DR conducted it from their shared apartment. She and Wells both kept the affair a secret. Wells had many affairs, several of them with women writers...
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.
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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...

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