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.
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| Health | Dorothy Richardson | |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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. 7 |
| Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | EB
's friend Desmond MacCarthy
approached Virginia Woolf
to review the book, but she refused, having taken a dislike to Bagnold and assuming that she had enmeshed poor old Desmond. Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne. 9 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Robins | ER
's publisher, Hutchinson
, blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 214 |
| Literary responses | Enid Bagnold | Responses to the novel were mixed. The feminist journal Time and Tide judged it a really important book, a mark in feminist history as well as a fine literary feat. Here at last is a... |
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