Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan, 1987. 244, 245-6 |
| Friends, Associates | Beatrice Webb | Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane
, Labour leader Arthur Henderson
, Liberal politician Herbert Samuel
, G. B. Shaw
, and political psychologist Graham Wallas
, the last two both Fabians. They... |
| Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
met another of her friends, H. G. Wells
, in 1902. The Blands and Wellses used to see each other at Dymchurch, since Wells had a house nearby. A bitter quarrel interrupted this... |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Her affair with Wells
ended after the miscarriage, but they remained friends until his death in August 1946. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977. 373-5 |
| 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, 1983. 128 |
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