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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth von Arnim
As well as dealing frankly with many of the difficulties in her married life, this book also treats her affair with H. G. Wells .
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 Dorothy Richardson
In The Tunnel Miriam is a young woman of twenty-one beginning her new life in London. Here and in DR 's succeeding novels, the city itself almost becomes a character. Just as Richardson did...
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 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 Enid Bagnold
This idiosyncratic autobiography incorporates entertaining sketches of Frank Harris , Walter Sickert , H. G. Wells , Desmond MacCarthy and several other friends and acquaintances. She was candid about her struggles with writing and her...
Travel Dorothy Richardson
After miscarrying her child by H. G. Wells , DR took a leave from her job to holiday at Pevensey in Sussex for several weeks.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977.
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Travel Rebecca West
RW spent some months in Italy with her lover, H. G. Wells .
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
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Travel Rebecca West
RW and H. G. Wells set out on a trip to Seville, Madrid, and Paris.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
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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...
Travel Rebecca West
After parting with Wells , RW travelled extensively, holidaying in Italy and the south of France, and returning to the United States.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
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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, 1982.
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between 1902 and 1938. Richardson fully devoted herself to writing after leaving her Harley Street job in 1908, and her writing rarely paid...

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