Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Richardson | This segment of Pilgrimage has Miriam, now twenty-eight, sharing a Bloomsbury flat with Selina Holland, a demanding spinster who disapproves of the younger woman's attachments to men. At this point, Miriam's relationship with writer Hypo... |
| Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | H. G. Wells
offered to find her another publisher than Duckworth
, as he felt she could do better in terms of remuneration and publicity with someone else. Finally, after the manuscript was refused by... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | She found it difficult to write this novel because of the publishing difficulties over Oberland and the death of H. G. Wells
's wife Amy Catherine, Jane
(a longtime friend and the model for one... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Shortly moving back to London, DR
contacted an old school friend, Amy Catherine Robbins
(called Jane by her husband, H. G. Wells
), and began socialising with the couple at their home in Worcester... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | The volume contains a selection of Richardson's approximately 1,800 surviving letters, dated from 1901. It includes her personal and professional letters to such correspondents as Bryher
, H. D.
, Sylvia Beach
, Amy Catherine (Jane) |
| Residence | Dorothy Richardson | Looking for more privacy because of her new romance with H. G. Wells
, DR
moved from Endsleigh Street to Woburn Walk, where she shared a flat with an acquaintance named Miss Moffatt
. |
| Textual Production | Henry Handel Richardson | It was substantially completed in draft before she moved in 1903 from Germany to England. There she felt that literature was at a low ebb, with an insular public which valued only utilitarian writers like... |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Henry Handel Richardson | Early reviews mixed horror (a libel on girlhood, the result of a curious mania for telling the literal truth regardless of the ordinary canons as to what is and what is not fitting for... |
| Travel | Dorothy Richardson | After miscarrying her child by H. G. Wells
, DR
took a leave from her job to holiday at Pevensey in Sussex for several weeks. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 56 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson | Although Moffatt disapproved of her affair with Wells
, DR
conducted it from their shared apartment. She and Wells both kept the affair a secret. Wells had many affairs, several of them with women writers... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's publisher, Hutchinson
, blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 214 |
| Friends, Associates | Berta Ruck | BR
developed a close personal friendship with the writer E. Nesbit
(mother of her art-student friend Iris Bland
). They vacationed together at Grez-sur-Marne in France, and Nesbit stayed for a week with Ruck's... |
| Education | Dora Russell | |
| politics | Dora Russell | By 1915-1916 she identified as a pacifist sympathizer, Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 51 |
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