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 Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
and H. G. Wells
were lovers, though the relationship was strained: Jane Wells
did not intend to divorce her husband, and it was during this time that he became involved with Rebecca West
as... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson | Although Moffatt disapproved of her affair with Wells
, DR
conducted it from their shared apartment. She and Wells both kept the affair a secret. Wells had many affairs, several of them with women writers... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | AR
and the young Fabian
lawyer George Rivers Blanco White
were married; she accepted his proposal because she was pregnant by H. G. Wells
. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 314 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rebecca West | Nineteen-year-old RW
met H. G. Wells
for the first time, shortly after she panned his novel Marriage in The Freewoman. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. 21-3 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Rebecca West | RW
had a son by H. G. Wells
: Anthony Panther West
, as a result of an unplanned, extramarital pregnancy. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. 35-8 Hammond, John Richard. H. G. Wells and Rebecca West. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. 78, 84 |
| 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... |
| Education | Fay Weldon | FW
learned to read at three: I remember . . . the way the letters suddenly made sense. Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002. 24 |
| Education | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's later educational endeavours continued through 1904-5, running concurrently with teaching (as the family breadwinner) and increasing political activity. She felt as if this was a private obsession, which would be incomprehensible to anyone... |
| Education | Dora Russell | |
| Dedications | G. B. Stern | GBS
dedicated to H. G. Wells
her first-world-war novel Children of No Man's Land. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth von Arnim | Born middle-class and presumably white in Australia when it was part of the British Empire, EA
later lived in England, Germany, Switzerland, and America. Her experiences in each of these places... |
| Cultural formation | Amber Reeves | Born a New Zealander, she clearly regarded herself later in life as English. Her parents were highly educated professionals. Her mother was a suffragist, and both parents became members of the Fabian Society
(founded three... |
| Birth | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit)
was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an... |
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