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.
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.
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.
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living writers into two...
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.
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rebecca West
Nineteen-year-old RW
met H. G. Wells
for the first time, shortly after she panned his novel Marriage in The Freewoman.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Health
Rebecca West
During a trip to France and Spain with her mother, RW
was in suicidal anguish over her conflicted relationship with H. G. Wells
.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
26-7
Family and Intimate relationships
Rebecca West
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.
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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.
Family and Intimate relationships
Fay Weldon
During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad
, Jean Rhys
(Such a louche young woman),
FW
learned to read at three: I remember . . . the way the letters suddenly made sense.
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo.
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After her grandmother joined the family in 1942 she was able to borrow adult books from...
Timeline
1897: With her publication of Grains of Sense,...
Women writers item
1897
With her publication of Grains of Sense, philosopher Victoria, Lady Welby
, shifted from theology towards a more academic and analytic study of meaning.
2 September 1914: The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly...
Writing climate item
2 September 1914
The British War Propaganda Bureau
(newly formed along the lines of a similar body in Germany) summoned twenty-five writers to discuss the production of texts that would boost national feeling and the war effort.
22 June 1925: The Film Society was incorporated in London,...
Building item
22 June 1925
The Film Society
was incorporated in London, where it operated until 1939.
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
Building item
By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
23
as her biographer puts it.
23 August 1927: Two Italian immigrants to the USA, Nicola...
National or international item
23 August 1927
Two Italian immigrants to the USA, Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
, were executed amid international furore for shooting dead a paymaster and a security guard outside a factory at South Braintree.
After February 1932: An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk's case...
Writing climate item
After February 1932
An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk
's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.
July 1945: Vannevar Bush's article on information theory...
Building item
July 1945
Vannevar Bush
's article on information theory entitled As We May Think was published in Atlantic Monthly.
Texts
Wells, H. G. A Short History of the World. Cassell, 1922.
Wells, H. G. Ann Veronica. T. Fisher Unwin, 1909.
Wells, H. G. Experiment in Autobiography. V. Gollancz; Cresset Press, 1934.
Wells, H. G. Marriage. MacMillan, 1912.
Wells, H. G. The Invisible Man. C. Arthur Pearson, 1897.
Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau. W. Heinemann, 1896.
Wells, H. G. The New Machiavelli. John Lane, 1911.
Wells, H. G., and James Francis Horrabin. The Outline of History. Editors Barker, Ernest et al., George Newnes, 1919.
Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. W. Heinemann, 1895.
Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. W. Heinemann, 1898.
