Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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Education
Dora Russell
Her subjects included German and French, philosophy and literature, particularly such writers as Kant
, Heine
, Pascal
, Racine
, and Voltaire
. Among English authors, she admired George Meredith
(Modern Love))...
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
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
Fay Weldon
FW
learned to read at three: I remember . . . the way the letters suddenly made sense.
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.
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After her grandmother joined the family in 1942 she was able to borrow adult books from...
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.
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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
Family and Intimate relationships
Iris Tree
Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...
Family and Intimate relationships
Amber Reeves
AR
's time at the London School of Economics was ended when she became pregnant as a result of a sexual liaison with H. G. Wells
, which had begun while she was at Cambridge...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rebecca West
RW
ended her liaison with H. G. Wells
when she sailed for America on a lecture tour.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
72
Hammond, John Richard. H. G. Wells and Rebecca West. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
142
Family and Intimate relationships
Ling Shuhua
During his youth, Chen
spent a decade in Britain, studying literature at Edinburgh University, then moving to the London School of Economics to take his doctorate in politics and economics with Harold Laski
...
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...
Timeline
1897: With her publication of Grains of Sense,...
Women writers item
1897
With her publication of Grains of Sense, philosopher Victoria, Lady Welby
, shifted from theology towards a more academic and analytic study of meaning.
Smith, Sean, archivist. “Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Lady Welby, Oct. 16, 1907”. York University: York University Gazette online: From the archives, 26 Jan. 2000.
Myers, William Andrew. “Victoria, Lady Welby 1837-1912”. Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-Today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 1-24.
4
2 September 1914: The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly...
Writing climate item
2 September 1914
The British War Propaganda Bureau
(newly formed along the lines of a similar body in Germany) summoned twenty-five writers to discuss the production of texts that would boost national feeling and the war effort.
Ledbetter, Rosanna. A History of the Malthusian League: 1877-1927. Ohio State University Press, 1976.
213
22 June 1925: The Film Society was incorporated in London,...
Building item
22 June 1925
The Film Society
was incorporated in London, where it operated until 1939.
Maclean, Caroline. “Gloomy Sunday Afternoons”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, 10 Sept. 2009, pp. 28-9.
29
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
Building item
By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author, 1999.
23
as her biographer puts it.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author, 1999.
29, 23
23 August 1927: Two Italian immigrants to the USA, Nicola...
National or international item
23 August 1927
Two Italian immigrants to the USA, Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
, were executed amid international furore for shooting dead a paymaster and a security guard outside a factory at South Braintree.
Cole, David. “Radical Aliens”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 20, 22 Oct. 2009, pp. 26-7.
26-7
After February 1932: An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk's case...
Writing climate item
After February 1932
An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk
's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
89-90
July 1945: Vannevar Bush's article on information theory...
Building item
July 1945
Vannevar Bush
's article on information theory entitled As We May Think was published in Atlantic Monthly.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, and William Aspray. Computer. Basic Books, 1996.
285-7
Texts
Wells, H. G. A Short History of the World. Cassell, 1922.
Wells, H. G. Ann Veronica. T. Fisher Unwin, 1909.
Wells, H. G. Experiment in Autobiography. V. Gollancz; Cresset Press, 1934, 2 vols.
Wells, H. G. Marriage. MacMillan, 1912.
Wells, H. G. The Invisible Man. C. Arthur Pearson, 1897.
Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau. W. Heinemann, 1896.
Wells, H. G. The New Machiavelli. John Lane, 1911.
Wells, H. G., and James Francis Horrabin. The Outline of History. Editors Barker, Ernest et al., George Newnes, 1919, 24 vols.
Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. W. Heinemann, 1895.
Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. W. Heinemann, 1898.