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
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...
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.
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She evidently...
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
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...
Occupation Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay
Publishing Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
In 1909, during the height of her involvement with the WSPU , Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ) began publishing articles in praise of militancy
Spender, Dale. Time and Tide Wait for No Man. Pandora Press, http://UofA.
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in the Western Mail.
Spender says she was...
Publishing Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Time and Tide carried two excerpts from Woolf 's A Room of One's Own in November 1929, and the next year MHVR wrote two series of articles on the treatment of women and gender in...
Fictionalization Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
In 1937 H. G. Wells , who had crossed swords with MHVR before that, depicted her as the unpleasant Lady Roundabout, editor of a weekly women's magazine called Wear and Tear.
Bland, Lucy. “Book Reviews: Angela V. John, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda</span&gt”;. Women’s History, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 25-6.
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But her...
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...

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