Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth, 1987.
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | |
| Publishing | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | In 1923 she wrote a series of articles for Strand Magazine, entitled As I know them—Some Writers of Today, describing, among others, Clemence Dane
and H. G. Wells
. |
| Publishing | Amber Reeves | The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, published this year in the USA and in 1932 in Britain, is listed by library catalogues as the work of H. G. Wells
alone; it seems... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | H. G. Wells
offered to find her another publisher than Duckworth
, as he felt she could do better in terms of remuneration and publicity with someone else. Finally, after the manuscript was refused by... |
| Reception | Annie Besant | The future suffragist Mary Gawthorpe
, encountering Karma about ten years after it was written, was profoundly affected. She felt that she sensed a reciprocal understanding, and read this with a different part of her... |
| Reception | Arnold Bennett | This novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and Bennett was buoyed up by positive reviews from J. B. Priestley
, H. G. Wells
, Joseph Conrad
and Thomas Hardy
. He was annoyed... |
| Residence | Arnold Bennett | At the end of 1922 AB
moved to 75 Cadogan Square in London with Dorothy Cheston, after separating from his wife Marguerite the previous year. He and Dorothy moved once again, in November 1930, to... |
| Residence | Dorothy Richardson | Looking for more privacy because of her new romance with H. G. Wells
, DR
moved from Endsleigh Street to Woburn Walk, where she shared a flat with an acquaintance named Miss Moffatt
. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977. 44-5 |
| Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's introduction says that the world of this novel is a Bellamy-Morris-Wells world. qtd. in Stratton, Susan. “Muriel Jaegers The Question Mark, a Response to Bellamy and Wells”. Foundation, No. 80, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 62-9. 65 |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Richardson | This companion novel to The Tunnel presents the relations of Miriam, a young woman in her early twenties, with the other occupants of her Bloomsbury boarding-house. Her friendship with Hypo G. Wilson, the character based... |
| Textual Features | Amber Reeves | The heroine, Evelyn Baker, grows up in Notting Hill in London. She finds her parents and her conventional lower-middle-class home constricting; nothing is expected of her because she is just a pretty girl. She wants... |
| Textual Features | G. B. Stern | |
| Textual Features | Winifred Peck | The story opens with a young man returning from the First World War and ends with young people returning from the second. At the outset seventeen-year-old Miranda Rae, living in Devon with her family, receives... |
| Textual Features | G. B. Stern | GBS
describes one of her own short stories in a manner that reflects oddly on the oblivion which enfolded earlier women writers during her career. The story concerns a beautiful, elegant young woman who feels... |
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