Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction H.G. Wells: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
Ann Veronica
Appendix A: Reception of Ann Veronica
- From John O’London, T.P.’s Weekly (22 October 1909)
- From [John St Loe Strachey,] “A Poisonous Book,” Spectator (20 November 1909)
- From H.G. Wells’s reply, Spectator (4 December 1909)
- From Freda Kirchwey, “A Private Letter to H.G. Wells,” Nation (28 November 1928)
- B[eatrice] H[astings] and K[atherine] M[ansfield], A Parody of Ann Veronica, The New Age (25 May 1911)
Appendix B: Wells on Ann Veronica
- From the Preface to the Atlantic Edition of The Works of H.G. Wells (1925)
- From “Writings about Sex,” Experiment in Autobiography (1934)
Appendix C: Ann Veronica and Censorship
- John Littlejohns, Front Cover of The New Age (3 February 1910)
- “A Public Librarian,” Spectator (December 1909)
- From Jacob Tonson [Arnold Bennett], “Books and Persons,” The New Age (24 February 1910)
Appendix D: Wells and the Debate over Modern Fiction
- From H.G. Wells, “The Contemporary Novel,” An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)
- From Henry James, “The Younger Generation,” Times Literary Supplement (2 April 1914)
- From Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction,” The Common Reader (1925)
Appendix E: Challenging the Domestic Ideal
- From John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens,” Sesame and Lilies (1865)
- From Mona Caird, “Marriage,” Westminster Review (August 1888)
- From Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labour (1911)
- From Dora Marsden, “Bondswomen and Freewomen,” Freewoman (23 November 1911)
- From Fabian Women’s Group, “Three Year’s Work” (1911)
- From M.A. [Mabel Atkinson], “The Economic Foundations of the Women’s Movement” (1914)
Appendix F: Wells on the Patriarchal Family and Evolution
- From Socialism and the Family (1906)
- From “Human Evolution, An Artificial Process,” Fortnightly Review (October 1896)
Appendix G: The Amber Reeves Affair
- H.G. Wells, “Dusa” (1936)
- Photograph of Amber Reeves in 1908 Student Group
- From the Diary of Beatrice Webb (1908, 1909)
- From Letters from Amber Reeves to H.G. Wells (1908, 1939)
- Photograph of Amber and Anna Jane Blanco White (1910)
Appendix H: The Suffrage Movement
- From Christabel Pankhurst, A Speech Delivered at Queen’s Hall (22 December 1908)
- From Emmeline Pankhurst, A Speech Delivered at Queen’s Hall (2 December 1910)
- From Belfort Bax, “Feminism and Female Suffrage,” The New Age (30 May 1908)
- From Beatrice Tina [Beatrice Hastings], “Woman as State Creditor,” The New Age (27 June 1907)
- From Beatrice Tina [Beatrice Hastings], “Suffragettes in the Making,” The New Age (3 December 1908)
- From D. Triformis [Beatrice Hastings], “The Failure of Militancy,” The New Age (20 January 1911)
- From Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement (1912)
- From Teresa Billington-Grieg, “Emancipation in a Hurry,” The New Age (12 January 1911)
- H.G. Wells, “Reply to Symposium on Women’s Suffrage,” The New Age (2 February 1911)
- M.C. Rock, “[And the Words]” (1914)
- “The Suffragettes and Their Trojan Horse,” Auckland Star (28 March 1908)
- Arthur Wallis Mills, “The Suffragette that Knew Jiu-Jitsu,” Punch (6 July 1910)
- Suffragettes Selling Votes for Women at Oval Cricket Ground Entrance (1908)
Works Cited and Recommended Reading