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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Material Conditions of Writing Dorothy Richardson
DR 's writing of this text was impeded by several factors: her periodical publications, which were an economic necessity; her commitment to proofread H. G. Wells 's collected works (for a fee of £20 for...
Material Conditions of Writing Dorothy Richardson
She found it difficult to write this novel because of the publishing difficulties over Oberland and the death of H. G. Wells 's wife Amy Catherine, Jane (a longtime friend and the model for one...
Material Conditions of Writing Dorothy Richardson
She was encouraged to write this book by J. D. Beresford and his wife Beatrice , by H. G. Wells , and by the editors of the Saturday Review. The Beresfords introduced her to...
names Rebecca West
  • BirthName: Cicily Isabel Fairfield
    RW was christened Cicely, but later adopted the spelling Cicily.
    Glendinning, Victoria. Rebecca West. Alfred Knopf, 1987.
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    Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
    6

  • Nicknames: Cissie
    This was a family nickname.
    Glendinning, Victoria. Rebecca West. Alfred Knopf, 1987.
    9
    ; Anne
    In her childhood, RW 's sisters called her Anne...
names G. B. Stern
  • BirthName: Gladys Bertha Stern
    At school, she later remembered, she was called Gladys Stern.
    Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958.
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  • Nicknames: Peter
    This was the name used by her friends. She gave it to a heroine of an early book...
Occupation Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay
Occupation Storm Jameson
SJ 's work on behalf of the imprisoned and the exiled required her to spend an immense amount of time and energy in diverse literary, social, and political circles. Joanna Labon asserts that [u]nder Jameson's...
politics Dora Marsden
According to Marsden, twelve to fifteen people were expected at this meeting but about a hundred attended. Meetings were open to male and female members and were held every two weeks, while chapters were also...
politics Elizabeth von Arnim
Because of her growing interest in Fabian socialism, EA asked Constance Smedley to introduce her to H. G. Wells , with whom she later had a love affair.
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986.
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politics Ali Smith
AS largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on.
Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, 1995, pp. 1-24.
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politics Beatrice Webb
The name reflects a panic about national absence of efficiency, a panic aroused by experience in the Second South African War. The club lasted for about five years, meeting at a tavern and numbering among...
politics Storm Jameson
While at King's , SJ accepted an invitation to join the Eikonoklasts, a group of men that met for weekly discussion in a campus common-room. Jameson recalled with relish that they were skeptics, unavowed anarchists...
politics Dora Russell
By 1915-1916 she identified as a pacifist sympathizer,
Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
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and during the summer of 1916 she corresponded with and then met H. G. Wells after strongly disagreeing with his pro-war writings.
Author summary Amber Reeves
AR , who began publishing shortly before the First World War, produced three clear-eyed and unsentimental novels about the predicament of the modern woman (including the difficulty of reconciling her sexuality with the social world)...
Publishing Julia Constance Fletcher
The title-page records publication both in London (in the Mayfair Series from John Lane of the Bodley Head ) and New York (from the Merriam Company ).
Other books in the Mayfair Series were Select...

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