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.

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Berta Ruck
BR developed a close personal friendship with the writer E. Nesbit (mother of her art-student friend Iris Bland ). They vacationed together at Grez-sur-Marne in France, and Nesbit stayed for a week with Ruck's...
Friends, Associates Rosita Forbes
In FinlandRF met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim .
Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell, 1944.
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On her first visit to the USA she met Rebecca West , Ruth Draper , Anna Pavlova , and H. G. Wells ; on...
Friends, Associates G. B. Stern
Other plums were Max Beerbohm , H. G. Wells , Somerset Maugham , J. B. Priestley , and Humbert Wolfe . Questioned by a reporter about the reason for the party, GBS suggested that she...
Friends, Associates Ford Madox Ford
Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells , Joseph Conrad
Health Dorothy Richardson
Early in the year DR was pregnant by H. G. Wells , but by midsummer she had miscarried.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977.
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Health Rebecca West
During a trip to France and Spain with her mother, RW was in suicidal anguish over her conflicted relationship with H. G. Wells .
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
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Intertextuality and Influence Violet Hunt
VH was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt 's...
Intertextuality and Influence Emma Frances Brooke
EFB later retracted her position on the state support of motherhood. When H. G. Wells delivered a lecture to a Fabian audience in October 1906 on Socialism and the Middle Classes which discussed his ideas...
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...
Leisure and Society Violet Hunt
VH hosted luncheons for Radclyffe Hall , Bram Stoker , H. G. Wells and others at the Writers' Club in Bruton Street. She later claimed: It was the first really literary and journalistic women's...
Literary responses Henry Handel Richardson
Early reviews mixed horror (a libel on girlhood, the result of a curious mania for telling the literal truth regardless of the ordinary canons as to what is and what is not fitting for...
Literary responses G. B. Stern
She was much comforted by a letter from H. G. Wells in which he praised this book.
Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell, 1944.
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Literary responses Arnold Bennett
This novel received immediate praise in the press, though sales of the small print-run took a long time to pick up. Enthusiastic reviewers included such different writers as Walter de la Mare (in the Times...
Literary responses Rebecca West
The wit and audacity with which RW attacked literary figures in her Freewoman articles—from Mary Augusta Ward 's complete lack of sense
West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, 1982, http://UofA.
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to H. G. Wells 's spinsterish gossip
West, Rebecca. The Young Rebecca. Editor Marcus, Jane, Macmillan with Virago, 1982, http://UofA.
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—helped her to make a name for herself quickly.
Literary responses Gertrude Stein
Reviewers of GS saw this work as embodying a new naturalism.
qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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H. G. Wells read Three Lives with deepening pleasure & admiration,
qtd. in
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday, 1975.
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and William James wrote to tell her that it was...

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