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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Textual Production Dora Marsden
The Freewoman's other writing contributors included Rebecca West , radical feminists Ada Neild Chew and Theresa Billington-Greig , Stella Browne (later founder of the Abortion Law Reform Association ), anarchists Rose Witcop and Guy Aldred
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
By the early 1930s NM was making as much by her writing, in real terms, as nearly fifty years later. She reviewed novels—reading at great speed even while breast-feeding, since she claimed that [i]f the...
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/.
Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
Scholar Kay Daniels notes that many of the ideas in this article predate by several years those espoused by H. G. Wells , especially regarding the state support of motherhood.
Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW published Rebecca West, an unusual and enthusiastic biographical study.
FW 's grandmother claimed to have known both West and H. G. Wells personally.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
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Textual Production E. Nesbit
It had previously been serialized from May 1905 to May 1906. Its treatment of ancient Egyptian magic owes a good deal to the information she received from Ernest Wallis Budge , Keeper of Egyptian and...
Textual Production Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD wrote a play in collaboration with H. G. Wells , though the date of their collaboration is disputed. Editor Steve Farmer dates it to 1905, but EHD herself writes in her autobiography that it...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
The volume contains a selection of Richardson's approximately 1,800 surviving letters, dated from 1901. It includes her personal and professional letters to such correspondents as Bryher , H. D. , Sylvia Beach , Amy Catherine (Jane)
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...
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...

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