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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Elizabeth von Arnim | Because of her growing interest in Fabian socialism, EA
asked Constance Smedley
to introduce her to H. G. Wells
, with whom she later had a love affair. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
and H. G. Wells
were lovers, though the relationship was strained: Jane Wells
did not intend to divorce her husband, and it was during this time that he became involved with Rebecca West
as... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth von Arnim | Born middle-class and presumably white in Australia when it was part of the British Empire, EA
later lived in England, Germany, Switzerland, and America. Her experiences in each of these places... |
| 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
. |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | |
| Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird
, E. Nesbit
, Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, and Alice Meynell
. She was also a friend of William Sharp
, Austin Dobson |
| Friends, Associates | Beatrice Webb | Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane
, Labour leader Arthur Henderson
, Liberal politician Herbert Samuel
, G. B. Shaw
, and political psychologist Graham Wallas
, the last two both Fabians. They... |
| politics | Beatrice Webb | The name reflects a panic about national absence of efficiency, a panic aroused by experience in the Second South African War. The club lasted for about five years, meeting at a tavern and numbering among... |
| 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. 315 |
| 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. 778 Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press. 507 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Fay Weldon | During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad
, Jean Rhys
(Such a louche young woman), Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo. 102 |
| Education | Fay Weldon | FW
learned to read at three: I remember . . . the way the letters suddenly made sense. Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo. 24 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rebecca West | RW
had a son by H. G. Wells
: Anthony Panther West
, as a result of an unplanned, extramarital pregnancy. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 35-8 Hammond, John Richard. H. G. Wells and Rebecca West. Harvester Wheatsheaf. 78, 84 |
| 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. 55-7 |
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