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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Textual Production Henry Handel Richardson
It was substantially completed in draft before she moved in 1903 from Germany to England. There she felt that literature was at a low ebb, with an insular public which valued only utilitarian writers like...
Textual Production Mavis Gallant
Despite this promising request, she received no news regarding the subsequent stories she submitted from Europe. While living in poverty in Madrid, MG happened across one of her recently submitted stories, One Morning in...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
She worked on her first novel in secret and was advised by William Pett Ridge (P. R.) to send it to Sydney Pawling at Heinemann , but Pawling sent it back with a...
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
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...
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/.
Textual Production Emma Frances Brooke
Scholar Kay Daniels notes that many of the ideas in this article predate by several years those espoused by H. G. Wells , especially regarding the state support of motherhood.
Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW published Rebecca West, an unusual and enthusiastic biographical study.
FW 's grandmother claimed to have known both West and H. G. Wells personally.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
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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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella Hepworth Dixon
In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Philip Larkin
The latter of these, discussing a book called H. G. Wells in Love, drew two strong statements from Larkin about sexual double standards. The first was that Wells's radical sexual conduct depended on the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vernon Lee
VL 's topics in this volume include Emerson , Tolstoy , Nietzsche , William James , H. G. Wells , Ruskin , and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...

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