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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
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