Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | During his youth, Chen
spent a decade in Britain, studying literature at Edinburgh University, then moving to the |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Ethel Mannin | EM
entertained frequently at Oak Cottage, the house she bought after separating from her first husband. Visitors included Paul Tanqueray
, Louis Marlow
, Ralph Straus
, Norman Haire
, Fenner Brockway
, and... |
| Education | Olivia Manning | At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself... |
| 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 |
| politics | Dora Marsden | According to Marsden, twelve to fifteen people were expected at this meeting but about a hundred attended. Meetings were open to male and female members and were held every two weeks, while chapters were also... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | In 1886, the year of EN
's first stillbirth, her close friend Alice Hoatson
became her husband's mistress. Alice then moved in with the Blands: ostensibly to help look after their children, since she was... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| Textual Features | Winifred Peck | The story opens with a young man returning from the First World War and ends with young people returning from the second. At the outset seventeen-year-old Miranda Rae, living in Devon with her family, receives... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | AR
and the young Fabian
lawyer George Rivers Blanco White
were married; she accepted his proposal because she was pregnant by H. G. Wells
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 314 |
| Publishing | Amber Reeves | The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, published this year in the USA and in 1932 in Britain, is listed by library catalogues as the work of H. G. Wells
alone; it seems... |
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