Rapture in Southend
Stefan Collini: H.G. Wells’s Egotism, 27 January 2022
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World
by Claire Tomalin.
Viking, 256 pp., £20, November 2021,978 0 241 23997 1 Show More
by Claire Tomalin.
Viking, 256 pp., £20, November 2021,
“... who appears to have initiated their passionate and riskily public relationship. Her father, William Pember Reeves, a leading Fabian and the recently appointed director of the London School of Economics, was incensed that his daughter had, as he saw it, fallen into the clutches of a philandering seducer more than twice her age, who was, to boot, a fellow ... ”