Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Amber Reeves | The heroine, Evelyn Baker, grows up in Notting Hill in London. She finds her parents and her conventional lower-middle-class home constricting; nothing is expected of her because she is just a pretty girl. She wants... |
| Fictionalization | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
| Textual Production | Amber Reeves | Many of AR
's papers are in family hands. Her letters to Wells
are at the University of Illinois
, and the Women's Library
holds the text of two interviews with her. |
| 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. 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... |
| Author summary | Amber Reeves | AR
, who began publishing shortly before the First World War, produced three clear-eyed and unsentimental novels about the predicament of the modern woman (including the difficulty of reconciling her sexuality with the social world)... |
| Cultural formation | Amber Reeves | Born a New Zealander, she clearly regarded herself later in life as English. Her parents were highly educated professionals. Her mother was a suffragist, and both parents became members of the Fabian Society
(founded three... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Her affair with Wells
ended after the miscarriage, but they remained friends until his death in August 1946. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 373-5 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Dorothy Richardson | Gillian Hanscombe
observes that DR
lived under the pressures of near-penury Hanscombe, Gillian. The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. Peter Owen. 40 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | She was encouraged to write this book by J. D. Beresford
and his wife Beatrice
, by H. G. Wells
, and by the editors of the Saturday Review. The Beresfords introduced her to... |
| Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | H. G. Wells
, reviewing this work, wrote that DR
had probably carried impressionism in fiction to its furthest limit. He considered that her percepts never become concepts, and that her heroine is not a... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Richardson | In The Tunnel Miriam is a young woman of twenty-one beginning her new life in London. Here and in DR
's succeeding novels, the city itself almost becomes a character. Just as Richardson did... |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | This companion novel to The Tunnel presents the relations of Miriam, a young woman in her early twenties, with the other occupants of her Bloomsbury boarding-house. Her friendship with Hypo G. Wilson, the character based... |
| Literary Setting | Dorothy Richardson | Hypo Wilson's seaside home, modelled after a house that H. G. Wells
had in Kent, is another of the novel's settings. Here, Miriam's writer friend Hypo is portrayed in the present as she views... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's writing of this text was impeded by several factors: her periodical publications, which were an economic necessity; her commitment to proofread H. G. Wells
's collected works (for a fee of £20 for... |
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