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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Travel Rebecca West
RW and H. G. Wells set out on a trip to Seville, Madrid, and Paris.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Family and Intimate relationships Rebecca West
RW ended her liaison with H. G. Wells when she sailed for America on a lecture tour.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
72
Hammond, John Richard. H. G. Wells and Rebecca West. Harvester Wheatsheaf.
142
Travel Rebecca West
After parting with Wells , RW travelled extensively, holidaying in Italy and the south of France, and returning to the United States.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
86-7
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...
Literary responses Rebecca West
The wit and audacity with which RW attacked literary figures in her Freewoman articles—from Mary Augusta Ward 's complete lack of sense
West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, http://UofA.
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to H. G. Wells 's spinsterish gossip
West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, http://UofA.
64
—helped her to make a name for herself quickly.
Family and Intimate relationships Rebecca West
Nineteen-year-old RW met H. G. Wells for the first time, shortly after she panned his novel Marriage in The Freewoman.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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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 Dorothy Whipple
Other speakers who came to stay were J. B. Priestley and St John Ervine , who at first talked like a river in spate and ignored his hostess. Later, however, he too, like Priestley, became...
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
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.
3: 421
living writers into two...
Literary responses E. H. Young
One review discerned a possible influence from Dorothy Richardson , but thought EHY (whom it supposed to be male) a saner person than Richardson (whom it knew to be female).
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
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Virginia Woolf (who had...

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