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Like Ann Veronica, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman reflects H.G. Wells's enthusiasm for the ideal of the New Woman.Lady Harman's interest in the condition of women persuades Sir Isaac (after Lady Harman's imprisonment for a month for breaking a post office window in support of the cause of women's suffrage has shocked him into acquiescence) to invest in the creation of six boardinghouses for ...
H. G. Wells Society plaque at Chiltern Court, Baker Street in the City of Westminster, London, where Wells lived between 1930 and 1936 In 1933, Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin in January 1940, [ 86 ] a prediction which ultimately came true four months early, in September 1939, with the ...
Marriage features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R.A.G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21. The novel traces the history of their relationship ...
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During her lifetime, Catherine Wells had a small number of writings published, predominantly in . [6] [12] [13] Reviewing her stories (published posthumously in The Book of Catherine Wells), Katherine Anne Porter wrote that Catherine Wells' writing was partly a reaction against her identity being subsumed to domestic life and overshadowed by H. G. Wells. [14]
Later that year, Count von Arnim died in Bad Kissingen, with his wife and three of their daughters by his side. [3] [17] In 1911, Elizabeth moved to Randogne, Switzerland, where she had the Chalet Soleil built, and entertained literary and society friends. [18] From 1910 until 1913, she was a mistress of the novelist H. G. Wells. [4]
For the descendants and relatives of H. G. Wells (1866–1946), an English writer. Pages in category "Wells family" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
"The Cone" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in Unicorn. It was intended to be "the opening chapter of a sensational novel set in the Five Towns", later abandoned. [1] The story is set at an ironworks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. An artist is there to depict the industrial landscape; the manager of the ironworks ...