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Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists, and suffragettes - a place where, as a student in Biology at Imperial College, she can be truly free. But when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly falls in love, she soon finds that freedom comes at a price.
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ISBN-13: | 9780141921044 |
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Publisher: | Penguin UK |
Publication date: | 03/31/2005 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 352 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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H. G. Wells (Author)
H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist who published more than a hundred books, including pioneering science fiction novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. He was a founding member of numerous movements including Liberty and PEN International - the world's oldest human rights organization - and his Rights of Man laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wells' controversial and progressive views on equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.
Margaret Drabble (Introducer)
Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and educated at Cambridge. She was awarded a CBE in 1980. Her many novels include The Radiant Way (1987), A Natural Curiosity (1989) and The Gates of Ivory(1991), The Peppered Moth (2000) and The Seven Sisters (2002) all of which are published by Penguin. Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London W10.
H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist who published more than a hundred books, including pioneering science fiction novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. He was a founding member of numerous movements including Liberty and PEN International - the world's oldest human rights organization - and his Rights of Man laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wells' controversial and progressive views on equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.
Margaret Drabble (Introducer)
Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and educated at Cambridge. She was awarded a CBE in 1980. Her many novels include The Radiant Way (1987), A Natural Curiosity (1989) and The Gates of Ivory(1991), The Peppered Moth (2000) and The Seven Sisters (2002) all of which are published by Penguin. Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London W10.
Date of Birth:
September 21, 1866Date of Death:
August 13, 1946Place of Birth:
Bromley, Kent, EnglandPlace of Death:
London, EnglandEducation:
Normal School of Science, London, EnglandTable of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction H.G. Wells: A Brief Chronology A Note on the TextAnn 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)
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