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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA 's mother invited to Stanway a wide variety of guests: Arthur Balfour , Walter Raleigh , George Wyndham , Harry Cust , Charles Whibley , H. G. Wells , Evan Charteris , Hugh Cecil
Friends, Associates Amber Reeves
AR 's parents' circle of friends quickly grew to include most of the Fabians: Beatrice and Sidney Webb , Edith Nesbit and her husband Hubert Bland , George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Pember Reeves
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
Friends, Associates Vernon Lee
VL initiated a friendship with H. G. Wells with a letter admiring his novels. They ended this friendship at the outset of World War I because of diverging political views.
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003.
280-1, 290
Friends, Associates Enid Bagnold
Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba writes that try as [EB ] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
148
Bagnold's friends included socialist...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Rosita Forbes
In FinlandRF met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim .
Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell, 1944.
302
On her first visit to the USA she met Rebecca West , Ruth Draper , Anna Pavlova , and H. G. Wells ; on...
Friends, Associates Ford Madox Ford
Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells , Joseph Conrad
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...
Friends, Associates Ethel Mannin
EM entertained frequently at Oak Cottage, the house she bought after separating from her first husband. Visitors included Paul Tanqueray , Louis Marlow , Ralph Straus , Norman Haire , Fenner Brockway , and...
Friends, Associates Pamela Frankau
Her aunt Eliza Aria introduced the very young PF to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike and writers Michael Arlen and Osbert Sitwell .
Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson, 1935.
133-4
Later came John Van Druten
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Stella Benson
SB became a close friend of the artists Cuthbert and Lady Eileen Orde .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan, 1987.
241
She met Vita Sackville-West , Arthur Waley , Aldous Huxley , and—at a party given by Ella Hepworth Dixon —H. G. Wells .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan, 1987.
244, 245-6

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