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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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...
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
EFB later retracted her position on the state support of motherhood. When H. G. Wells delivered a lecture to a Fabian audience in October 1906 on Socialism and the Middle Classes which discussed his ideas...
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.
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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.
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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 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.
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as well as a creative advisor; Bertrand and Dora Russell
Friends, Associates Stella Benson
SB became a close friend of the artists Cuthbert and Lady Eileen Orde .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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She met Vita Sackville-West , Arthur Waley , Aldous Huxley , and—at a party given by Ella Hepworth Dixon —H. G. Wells .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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Friends, Associates Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Once settled in a larger house more suited to entertaining, CADS renewed old friendships and made new ones with luminaries in London literary society, including Beatrice Harraden , Arthur Waugh , H. G. Wells ,...
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 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 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...

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