Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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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. 373-5 |
Wealth and Poverty | Dorothy Richardson | Gillian Hanscombe
observes that DR
lived under the pressures of near-penury Hanscombe, Gillian. The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. Peter Owen. 40 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | She was encouraged to write this book by J. D. Beresford
and his wife Beatrice
, by H. G. Wells
, and by the editors of the Saturday Review. The Beresfords introduced her to... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | H. G. Wells
, reviewing this work, wrote that DR
had probably carried impressionism in fiction to its furthest limit. He considered that her percepts never become concepts, and that her heroine is not a... |
Fictionalization | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
Textual Production | Amber Reeves | Many of AR
's papers are in family hands. Her letters to Wells
are at the University of Illinois
, and the Women's Library
holds the text of two interviews with her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | AR
and the young Fabian
lawyer George Rivers Blanco White
were married; she accepted his proposal because she was pregnant by H. G. Wells
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 314 |
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
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Pember Reeves |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | AR
's time at the |
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... |
Textual Features | Winifred Peck | The story opens with a young man returning from the First World War and ends with young people returning from the second. At the outset seventeen-year-old Miranda Rae, living in Devon with her family, receives... |
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