Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell, 1944.
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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. |
| 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... |
| 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, 1977. 54-5 |
| 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, 1995. 26-7 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Hunt | VH
was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Frances Brooke | |
| Leisure and Society | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | After her schooling at St Leonard's
and before her brief time at Oxford
, Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) was a debutante for three years, during which time she was bored and suffocated by... |
| Leisure and Society | Violet Hunt | VH
hosted luncheons for Radclyffe Hall
, Bram Stoker
, H. G. Wells
and others at the Writers' Club
in Bruton Street. She later claimed: It was the first really literary and journalistic women's... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Arnold Bennett | This novel received immediate praise in the press, though sales of the small print-run took a long time to pick up. Enthusiastic reviewers included such different writers as Walter de la Mare
(in the Times... |
| 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, 1982, http://UofA. 15 West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, 1982, http://UofA. 64 |
| Literary responses | G. B. Stern | She was much comforted by a letter from H. G. Wells
in which he praised this book. Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell, 1944. 7 |
| Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | Reviewers of GS
saw this work as embodying a new naturalism. qtd. in Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 68 qtd. in Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975. 68-9 |
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