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.

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Publishing Amber Reeves
The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, published this year in the USA and in 1932 in Britain, is listed by library catalogues as the work of H. G. Wells alone; it seems...
Author summary Amber Reeves
AR , who began publishing shortly before the First World War, produced three clear-eyed and unsentimental novels about the predicament of the modern woman (including the difficulty of reconciling her sexuality with the social world)...
Cultural formation Amber Reeves
Born a New Zealander, she clearly regarded herself later in life as English. Her parents were highly educated professionals. Her mother was a suffragist, and both parents became members of the Fabian Society (founded three...
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 .
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Family and Intimate relationships Amber Reeves
AR 's time at the London School of Economics was ended when she became pregnant as a result of a sexual liaison with H. G. Wells , which had begun while she was at Cambridge...
Travel Amber Reeves
AR and Wells eloped briefly to Le Touquet before Reeves' marriage was arranged and Wells went back to his family. She then spent some time lying low in an English country cottage found for her...
Textual Features Amber Reeves
The heroine, Evelyn Baker, grows up in Notting Hill in London. She finds her parents and her conventional lower-middle-class home constricting; nothing is expected of her because she is just a pretty girl. She wants...
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...
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)

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