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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Literary responses Lady Cynthia Asquith
Robin Hone , reviewing, found a genial mist of restrained and charitable recollection, which ignored such jarring contrasts as that between this time and the First World War which was to follow, or between D. H. Lawrence
Literary responses Margaret Atwood
Ursula K. Le Guin, reviewing, noted the rarity of individual characters of some complexity in satire (even Atwood's own satire), and therefore particularly welcomed the female characters here as real people, but heartbreaking ones...
Literary responses Zoë Fairbairns
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Frank Pike , judged the novel ambitious yet unpretentious.
Pike, Frank. “Catching Up: Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4003, 7 Dec. 1979, p. 104.
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He quoted a remark by Fay Weldon on its jacket, calling ZFa female H. G. Wells ,
Pike, Frank. “Catching Up: Fiction”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4003, 7 Dec. 1979, p. 104.
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Literary responses E. H. Young
One review discerned a possible influence from Dorothy Richardson , but thought EHY (whom it supposed to be male) a saner person than Richardson (whom it knew to be female).
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
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Virginia Woolf (who had...
Literary responses Enid Bagnold
EB 's friend Desmond MacCarthy approached Virginia Woolf to review the book, but she refused, having taken a dislike to Bagnold and assuming that she had enmeshed poor old Desmond.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Enid Bagnold. Twayne, 1986.
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As Woolf put it...
Literary responses Enid Bagnold
Responses to the novel were mixed. The feminist journal Time and Tide judged it a really important book, a mark in feminist history as well as a fine literary feat. Here at last is a...
Literary responses Elizabeth Robins
ER 's publisher, Hutchinson , blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
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Reviewers, however, mostly revealed her identify, and those who quarrelled with this book...
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 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 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 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...
Literary responses Arnold Bennett
Margaret Drabble began work on her biography of AB (published in 1974) in a partisan spirit, because she felt Bennett was seriously undervalued. She was, she wrote, surprised to find she enjoyed and respected...
Literary responses John Galsworthy
JG 's literary reputation, established with his first Forsyte novel, was strong in the late Edwardian period and the early 1920s, but deteriorated later in the decade (though he remained very popular with the public)...
Literary Setting Dorothy Richardson
Hypo Wilson's seaside home, modelled after a house that H. G. Wells had in Kent, is another of the novel's settings. Here, Miriam's writer friend Hypo is portrayed in the present as she views...

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