Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press, 1986–2011, 6 vols.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Forster | This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Virginia Woolf | Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Sitwell | In tone Taken Care Of is sometimes bitter or self-justifying, but it is a virtuoso performance. ES
goes into detail about her childhood and her friendships, quotes lavishly from her poems, and ends on her... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth von Arnim | As well as dealing frankly with many of the difficulties in her married life, this book also treats her affair with H. G. Wells
. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Storm Jameson | Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield
, Conrad
, Hardy
, and James
, along with Willa Cather
and Sinclair Lewis
. However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ella Hepworth Dixon | In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith
, Margaret Kennedy
(particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim
, and Violet Hunt
. Authors who receive whole... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Richardson | In The Tunnel Miriam is a young woman of twenty-one beginning her new life in London. Here and in DR
's succeeding novels, the city itself almost becomes a character. Just as Richardson did... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Philip Larkin | The latter of these, discussing a book called H. G. Wells
in Love, drew two strong statements from Larkin about sexual double standards. The first was that Wells's radical sexual conduct depended on the... |
| Travel | Rebecca West | RW
and H. G. Wells
set out on a trip to Seville, Madrid, and Paris. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. 62, 65 |
| Travel | Amber Reeves | AR
and Wells
eloped briefly to Le Touquet before Reeves' marriage was arranged and Wells went back to his family. She then spent some time lying low in an English country cottage found for her... |
| Travel | Rebecca West | After parting with Wells
, RW
travelled extensively, holidaying in Italy and the south of France, and returning to the United States. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. 86-7 |
| Travel | Dorothy Richardson | After miscarrying her child by H. G. Wells
, DR
took a leave from her job to holiday at Pevensey in Sussex for several weeks. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977. 56 |
| Travel | Rebecca West | RW
spent some months in Italy with her lover, H. G. Wells
. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. 55-7 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Dorothy Richardson | Gillian Hanscombe
observes that DR
lived under the pressures of near-penury Hanscombe, Gillian. The Art of Life: Dorothy Richardson and the Development of Feminist Consciousness. Peter Owen, 1982. 40 |
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