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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | Sylvia Pankhurst
enrolled her son as a day-boy at Beacon Hill, and lived nearby while writing The Suffragette Movement; Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, and G. B. Shaw
also visited. The school hosted annual... |
| Textual Production | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | She worked on her first novel in secret and was advised by William Pett Ridge
(P. R.) to send it to Sydney Pawling
at Heinemann
, but Pawling sent it back with a... |
| 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
,... |
| Publishing | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | In 1923 she wrote a series of articles for Strand Magazine, entitled As I know them—Some Writers of Today, describing, among others, Clemence Dane
and H. G. Wells
. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Sitwell | In tone Taken Care Of is sometimes bitter or self-justifying, but it is a virtuoso performance. ES
goes into detail about her childhood and her friendships, quotes lavishly from her poems, and ends on her... |
| politics | Ali Smith | AS
largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on. Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-24. 5 |
| Friends, Associates | Freya Stark | Through her association with Jeyes, FS
met such literary figures as H. G. Wells
and W. B. Yeats
. She also campaigned for the Anti-Suffrage League
and met key figures in the group, including its... |
| 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 |
| Dedications | G. B. Stern | GBS
dedicated to H. G. Wells
her first-world-war novel Children of No Man's Land. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
| Friends, Associates | G. B. Stern | Other plums were Max Beerbohm
, H. G. Wells
, Somerset Maugham
, J. B. Priestley
, and Humbert Wolfe
. Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS
suggested that she... |
| Textual Features | G. B. Stern | |
| Literary responses | G. B. Stern | She was much comforted by a letter from H. G. Wells
in which he praised this book. Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell. 7 |
| Textual Features | G. B. Stern | GBS
describes one of her own short stories in a manner that reflects oddly on the oblivion which enfolded earlier women writers during her career. The story concerns a beautiful, elegant young woman who feels... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
| Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | At Clarebeg they began holding a literary salon for Irish writers and intellectuals. Their guests included Irish writer Padraic Colum
, his wife Mary Gunning Maguire
(later an eminent literary critic), poet and novelist James Stephens |
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