Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | SB
became a close friend of the artists Cuthbert
and Lady Eileen Orde
. Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 241 Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 244, 245-6 |
| 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
,... |
| Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
met another of her friends, H. G. Wells
, in 1902. The Blands and Wellses used to see each other at Dymchurch, since Wells had a house nearby. A bitter quarrel interrupted this... |
| 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 |
| 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. 54-5 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Hunt | VH
was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Frances Brooke | |
| Leisure and Society | Violet Hunt | VH
hosted luncheons for Radclyffe Hall
, Bram Stoker
, H. G. Wells
and others at the Writers' Club
in Bruton Street. She later claimed: It was the first really literary and journalistic women's... |
| Leisure and Society | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After her schooling at St Leonard's
and before her brief time at Oxford
, Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by... |
| Literary responses | E. Nesbit | Again Kipling
wrote comically about the effect of her work in his household: how the governess had to read it aloud again and again, and his wife just all the time, and himself too, but... |
| Literary responses | Ella D'Arcy | H. G. Wells
reviewed Monochromes along with volumes of stories by Henry Harland
and by Henry James
. Dismissing Harland as a mediocrity and James for his style (which he likened to thorns, brambles, and... |
| Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | Reviewers of GS
saw this work as embodying a new naturalism. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 68 Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 68-9 |
| Literary responses | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 365-6 |
| Literary responses | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Robin Hone
, reviewing, found a genial mist of restrained and charitable recollection, which ignored such jarring contrasts as that between this time and the First World War which was to follow, or between D. H. Lawrence |
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