Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
H. G. Wells
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Standard Name: Wells, H. G.
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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 Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | E. Nesbit | Again Kipling
wrote comically about the effect of her work in his household: how the governess had to read it aloud again and again, and his wife just all the time, and himself too, but... |
| Textual Production | E. Nesbit | It had previously been serialized from May 1905 to May 1906. Its treatment of ancient Egyptian magic owes a good deal to the information she received from Ernest Wallis Budge
, Keeper of Egyptian and... |
| Literary responses | E. Nesbit | In 1915 EN
was granted a Civil List
pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 365-6 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | In 1886, the year of EN
's first stillbirth, her close friend Alice Hoatson
became her husband's mistress. Alice then moved in with the Blands: ostensibly to help look after their children, since she was... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | By the early 1930s NM
was making as much by her writing, in real terms, as nearly fifty years later. She reviewed novels—reading at great speed even while breast-feeding, since she claimed that [i]f the... |
| politics | Dora Marsden | According to Marsden, twelve to fifteen people were expected at this meeting but about a hundred attended. Meetings were open to male and female members and were held every two weeks, while chapters were also... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | The Freewoman's other writing contributors included Rebecca West
, radical feminists Ada Neild Chew
and Theresa Billington-Greig
, Stella Browne
(later founder of the Abortion Law Reform Association
), anarchists Rose Witcop
and Guy Aldred |
| Education | Olivia Manning | At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself... |
| Friends, Associates | Ethel Mannin | EM
entertained frequently at Oak Cottage, the house she bought after separating from her first husband. Visitors included Paul Tanqueray
, Louis Marlow
, Ralph Straus
, Norman Haire
, Fenner Brockway
, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Cecily Mackworth | CM
later wrote that the search for love was interwoven with many events of her life; she felt her judgement was poor in matters of the heart, and connected this with the loss of her... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | During his youth, Chen
spent a decade in Britain, studying literature at Edinburgh University, then moving to the |
| Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | VL
initiated a friendship with H. G. Wells
with a letter admiring his novels. They ended this friendship at the outset of World War I because of diverging political views. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 280-1, 290 |
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