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
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Ling Shuhua
During his youth, Chen spent a decade in Britain, studying literature at Edinburgh University, then moving to the London School of Economics to take his doctorate in politics and economics with Harold Laski ...
Family and Intimate relationships Iris Tree
Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was IT 's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...
Family and Intimate relationships Cecily Mackworth
CM later wrote that the search for love was interwoven with many events of her life; she felt her judgement was poor in matters of the heart, and connected this with the loss of her...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Rebecca West
Through the 1920s, RW had several brief and sometimes conflicted romantic liaisons with men. In 1920 she made some moves towards having an affair with Compton Mackenzie in retaliation for Wells 's continuing infidelities. During...
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Hunt
VH had an affair with H. G. Wells while he was married to his second wife and also involved with author Dorothy Richardson .
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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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...
Fictionalization Violet Hunt
In addition to the autobiographical strain running through some of her own work, VH inspired characters created by several other writers. She is reimagined as Carlotta Peel in Sacred and Profane Love (1905) by Arnold Bennett
Fictionalization Beatrice Webb
H. G. Wells caricatured her (along with Sidney, of course) in The New Machiavelli as Altiora Bailey.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Her reputation has been first and foremost the political one which she shared with Sidney: as...
Fictionalization Elizabeth von Arnim
EA inspired a number of creative portraits by her contemporaries during the earlier part of her career. Probably the best-known is the character of Mrs Failing in E. M. Forster 's novel The Longest Journey...
Fictionalization Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
In 1937 H. G. Wells , who had crossed swords with MHVR before that, depicted her as the unpleasant Lady Roundabout, editor of a weekly women's magazine called Wear and Tear.
Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda</span&gt”;. Women’s History, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 25-6.
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But her...
Friends, Associates Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE 's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell , whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson , a political mentor
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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as well as a creative advisor; Bertrand and Dora Russell
Friends, Associates Stella Benson
SB became a close friend of the artists Cuthbert and Lady Eileen Orde .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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She met Vita Sackville-West , Arthur Waley , Aldous Huxley , and—at a party given by Ella Hepworth Dixon —H. G. Wells .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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Friends, Associates Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Once settled in a larger house more suited to entertaining, CADS renewed old friendships and made new ones with luminaries in London literary society, including Beatrice Harraden , Arthur Waugh , H. G. Wells ,...

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