HG Wells: prophet of free love

HG Wells, author of more than 100 books, was also a prophet of the sexual revolution. David Lodge delves into his many affairs and, below, DJ Taylor considers his literary achievement In 2004, while waiting for my novel about Henry James, Author, Author , to come out, I occupied myself by writing the introduction to a Penguin Classics edition of HG Wells’s novel Kipps . In April I made this note in my very occasional diary: Researching Kipps I came across in Wells’s Experiment in Autobiography an interesting story of the ménage of Mr and Mrs Hubert Bland at Well Hall, Eltham. He was a Fabian, a philanderer who converted to Catholicism, she was

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