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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Publishing Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
In 1909, during the height of her involvement with the WSPU , Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ) began publishing articles in praise of militancy
Spender, Dale. Time and Tide Wait for No Man. Pandora Press, http://UofA.
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in the Western Mail.
Spender says she was...
Publishing Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Time and Tide carried two excerpts from Woolf 's A Room of One's Own in November 1929, and the next year MHVR wrote two series of articles on the treatment of women and gender in...
Fictionalization Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
In 1937 H. G. Wells , who had crossed swords with MHVR before that, depicted her as the unpleasant Lady Roundabout, editor of a weekly women's magazine called Wear and Tear.
Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda</span&gt”;. Women’s History, Vol.
2
, No. 1, pp. 25-6.
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But her...
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 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...
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.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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She evidently...
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...
Friends, Associates Amber Reeves
AR 's parents' circle of friends quickly grew to include most of the Fabians: Beatrice and Sidney Webb , Edith Nesbit and her husband Hubert Bland , George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Pember Reeves
Family and Intimate relationships Amber Reeves
AR 's time at the London School of Economics was ended when she became pregnant as a result of a sexual liaison with H. G. Wells , which had begun while she was at Cambridge...
Travel Amber Reeves
AR and Wells eloped briefly to Le Touquet before Reeves' marriage was arranged and Wells went back to his family. She then spent some time lying low in an English country cottage found for her...

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