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Ann Veronica de H. G. Wells

Ann Veronica

Autor H. G. Wells
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Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells published in 1909. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament. Mr. Stanley forbids his adult daughter, a biology student at Tredgold Women's College and the youngest of his five children, to attend a fancy dress ball in London, causing a crisis. Ann Veronica is planning to attend the dance with friends of a down-at-heel artistic family living nearby and has been chafing at other restrictions imposed for no apparent reason on her. After her father resorts to force to stop her from attending the ball, she leaves her home in the fictional south London suburb of Morningside Park in order to live independently in an apartment "in a street near the Hampstead Road" in North London. Unable to find appropriate employment, she borrows forty pounds from Mr. Ramage, an older man, without realizing she is compromising herself. With this money, Ann Veronica is able to devote herself to study in the biological laboratory of the Central Imperial College (a constituent college of London University) where she meets and falls in love with Capes, the laboratory's "demonstrator." But Mr. Ramage loses little time in trying to take advantage of the situation, precipitating a crisis. Distraught after Ramage tries to force himself on her, Ann Veronica temporarily abandons her studies and devotes herself to the cause of women's suffrage; she is arrested storming Parliament and spends a month in prison. Sobered by the experience, Ann Veronica convinces herself of the necessity of compromise. She returns to her father's home and engages herself to marry an admirer she does not love, Hubert Manning. But she soon changes her mind, renounces the engagement, and boldly tells Capes she loves him. Though he returns Ann Veronica's love, at first the thirty-year-old Capes insists on the impossibility of the situation: he is a married (albeit separated) man with a sullied reputation because of an affair that became public. They can only be friends, he declares. But Ann Veronica is undeterred by his confession and his prudence, and finally Capes's resistance buckles: "She stood up and held her arms toward him. 'I want you to kiss me, ' she said. . . . 'I want you. I want you to be my lover. I want to give myself to you. I want to be whatever I can to you.' She paused for a moment. 'Is that plain?' she asked." Capes decides to throw over his employment at the college in order to live with Ann Veronica, and they enjoy a glorious "honeymoon" in the Alps. A final chapter shows the happy couple four years and four months later living in London. Capes has become a successful playwright, and Ann Veronica is pregnant and has reconciled with her family.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781548137830
ISBN-10: 1548137839
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg

Notă biografică

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'.

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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.

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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.

“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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