Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
RW
had a son by H. G. Wells
: Anthony Panther West
, as a result of an unplanned, extramarital pregnancy.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Hammond, John Richard. H. G. Wells and Rebecca West. Harvester Wheatsheaf.
78, 84
Travel
Rebecca West
RW
spent some months in Italy with her lover, H. G. Wells
.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Travel
Rebecca West
RW
and H. G. Wells
set out on a trip to Seville, Madrid, and Paris.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
62, 65
Family and Intimate relationships
Rebecca West
RW
ended her liaison with H. G. Wells
when she sailed for America on a lecture tour.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Hammond, John Richard. H. G. Wells and Rebecca West. Harvester Wheatsheaf.
142
Travel
Rebecca West
After parting with Wells
, RW
travelled extensively, holidaying in Italy and the south of France, and returning to the United States.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Rebecca West
Through the 1920s, RW
had several brief and sometimes conflicted romantic liaisons with men. In 1920 she made some moves towards having an affair with Compton Mackenzie
in retaliation for Wells
's continuing infidelities. During...
Literary responses
Rebecca West
The wit and audacity with which RW
attacked literary figures in her Freewoman articles—from Mary Augusta Ward
's complete lack of sense
West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, http://UofA.
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to H. G. Wells
's spinsterish gossip
West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, http://UofA.
64
—helped her to make a name for herself quickly.
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Whipple
Other speakers who came to stay were J. B. Priestley
and St John Ervine
, who at first talked like a river in spate and ignored his hostess. Later, however, he too, like Priestley, became...
Friends, Associates
Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE
's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell
, whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson
, a political mentor
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press.
3: 421
living writers into two...
Literary responses
E. H. Young
One review discerned a possible influence from Dorothy Richardson
, but thought EHY
(whom it supposed to be male) a saner person than Richardson (whom it knew to be female).
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.