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Ann Veronica de H. G. Wells

Ann Veronica

Autor H. G. Wells Editat de 1stworld Library
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One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost glad it had been reached. She made up her mind in the train home that it should be a decisive crisis. It is for that reason that this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving out of the station, whereas she was only moving in.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781421833361
ISBN-10: 1421833360
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: 1st World Library

Notă biografică

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946)-known as H. G. Wells-was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics and social commentary, as well as textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

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H.G. Wells’s 1909 novel centres on the coming of age of the spirited Ann Veronica, who runs away from her sheltered suburban home to live in London. There she mingles with feminists, studies biology, learns jiu jitsu, and even participates in a suffragette raid on the House of Commons that lands her in jail. When originally published, the novel was deemed “poisonous” for its bold treatment of an adulterous romance that only lightly veiled Wells’s extramarital affairs. While critics debate whether the shift to romance undermines the novel’s feminist themes, readers continue to be engaged by its vividly realized heroine and its rich portrayal of the tumultuous social movements of Edwardian London.
Historical documents expand on the novel’s autobiographical dimension with letters between Wells and Amber Reeves, the model for Ann Veronica; also included are materials on the suffrage movement, attempts to censor the novel, and the New Woman.

Recenzii

H.G. Wells’s 1909 novel centres on the coming of age of the spirited Ann Veronica, who runs away from her sheltered suburban home to live in London. There she mingles with feminists, studies biology, learns jiu jitsu, and even participates in a suffragette raid on the House of Commons that lands her in jail. When originally published, the novel was deemed “poisonous” for its bold treatment of an adulterous romance that only lightly veiled Wells’s extramarital affairs. While critics debate whether the shift to romance undermines the novel’s feminist themes, readers continue to be engaged by its vividly realized heroine and its rich portrayal of the tumultuous social movements of Edwardian London.
Historical documents expand on the novel’s autobiographical dimension with letters between Wells and Amber Reeves, the model for Ann Veronica; also included are materials on the suffrage movement, attempts to censor the novel, and the New Woman.

“A fitting representation of Wells’s series of social romances, in this new edition Ann Veronica assumes enhanced value as an examination of the ‘Woman Question’ at the turn of the twentieth century. Carey Snyder’s fine introduction and her selection of texts for the appendices encourage readers to join in the sort of debate that Wells strove to inspire in his fiction. Notably Snyder appreciates the lifelong accomplishments of Amber Reeves, whose youthful affair with Wells was the inspiration for the lively central character. There are also some well-selected primary texts recording the views of Wells on his own work, the arguments of would-be censors, the Fabians, the suffrage movement, modernist reviewers, and Beatrice Hastings of The New Age.” — Bonnie Kime Scott, Professor Emerita, San Diego State University and the University of Delaware
“Carey Snyder has produced a splendid new edition of H.G. Wells’s under-read take on the social and literary phenomenon of the New Woman. The novel itself, like most of Wells’s work, is a great read, and Snyder supplies a first-rate introduction that locates Ann Veronica in its moment—the woman’s suffrage movement, debates about marriage, chastity, sexual candor, and socialism—as well a rich selection of appendices reproducing a wide range of contextual documents, from John Ruskin on separate spheres for men and women to selections of letters to Wells from Amber Reeves, one of the historical/autobiographical models for his eponymous heroine. By situating Ann Veronica so deftly in its own moment, Snyder lets it speak to ours.” — Mark Wollaeger, Vanderbilt University
“Snyder’s terrific edition does justice to Ann Veronica’s experiments in the modern and to the implications of the ‘modern romance’ of its subtitle. Its introduction and notes assist readers with understanding contemporary contexts and debates, while its appendices provide readers with tools to extend their analyses of the novel’s engagement with, among other topics, feminism, theories of modern fiction, socialism, censorship, evolutionary biology, urban life, and contrary notions of ‘modernity.’” — Elizabeth F. Evans, Modernism/modernity

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
H.G. Wells: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Ann Veronica
Appendix A: Reception of Ann Veronica
  1. From John O’London, T.P.’s Weekly (22 October 1909)
  2. From [John St Loe Strachey,] “A Poisonous Book,” Spectator (20 November 1909)
  3. From H.G. Wells’s reply, Spectator (4 December 1909)
  4. From Freda Kirchwey, “A Private Letter to H.G. Wells,” Nation (28 November 1928)
  5. 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
  1. From the Preface to the Atlantic Edition of The Works of H.G. Wells (1925)
  2. From “Writings about Sex,” Experiment in Autobiography (1934)
Appendix C: Ann Veronica and Censorship
  1. John Littlejohns, Front Cover of The New Age (3 February 1910)
  2. “A Public Librarian,” Spectator (December 1909)
  3. From Jacob Tonson [Arnold Bennett], “Books and Persons,” The New Age (24 February 1910)
Appendix D: Wells and the Debate over Modern Fiction
  1. From H.G. Wells, “The Contemporary Novel,” An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)
  2. From Henry James, “The Younger Generation,” Times Literary Supplement (2 April 1914)
  3. From Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction,” The Common Reader (1925)
Appendix E: Challenging the Domestic Ideal
  1. From John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens,” Sesame and Lilies (1865)
  2. From Mona Caird, “Marriage,” Westminster Review (August 1888)
  3. From Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labour (1911)
  4. From Dora Marsden, “Bondswomen and Freewomen,” Freewoman (23 November 1911)
  5. From Fabian Women’s Group, “Three Year’s Work” (1911)
  6. From M.A. [Mabel Atkinson], “The Economic Foundations of the Women’s Movement” (1914)
Appendix F: Wells on the Patriarchal Family and Evolution
  1. From Socialism and the Family (1906)
  2. From “Human Evolution, An Artificial Process,” Fortnightly Review (October 1896)
Appendix G: The Amber Reeves Affair
  1. H.G. Wells, “Dusa” (1936)
  2. Photograph of Amber Reeves in 1908 Student Group
  3. From the Diary of Beatrice Webb (1908, 1909)
  4. From Letters from Amber Reeves to H.G. Wells (1908, 1939)
  5. Photograph of Amber and Anna Jane Blanco White (1910)
Appendix H: The Suffrage Movement
  1. From Christabel Pankhurst, A Speech Delivered at Queen’s Hall (22 December 1908)
  2. From Emmeline Pankhurst, A Speech Delivered at Queen’s Hall (2 December 1910)
  3. From Belfort Bax, “Feminism and Female Suffrage,” The New Age (30 May 1908)
  4. From Beatrice Tina [Beatrice Hastings], “Woman as State Creditor,” The New Age (27 June 1907)
  5. From Beatrice Tina [Beatrice Hastings], “Suffragettes in the Making,” The New Age (3 December 1908)
  6. From D. Triformis [Beatrice Hastings], “The Failure of Militancy,” The New Age (20 January 1911)
  7. From Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement (1912)
  8. From Teresa Billington-Grieg, “Emancipation in a Hurry,” The New Age (12 January 1911)
  9. H.G. Wells, “Reply to Symposium on Women’s Suffrage,” The New Age (2 February 1911)
  10. M.C. Rock, “[And the Words]” (1914)
  11. “The Suffragettes and Their Trojan Horse,” Auckland Star (28 March 1908)
  12. Arthur Wallis Mills, “The Suffragette that Knew Jiu-Jitsu,” Punch (6 July 1910)
  13. Suffragettes Selling Votes for Women at Oval Cricket Ground Entrance (1908)
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