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Amber Blanco White (née Reeves; 1 July 1887 – 26 December 1981) was a New Zealand-born British feminist writer and scholar.
Jun 1, 2015 · It doesn’t ring true. Because it isn’t. Margaret Drabble’s introduction to a reissue of the book explains that Wells based Ann on Amber Reeves, a young woman he had seduced (according to other, shocked members of the Fabian Society) within the very walls of Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was studying moral sciences.
Nov 15, 2021 · In real life, Wells wrote Amber Reeves a letter near the end of their affair, which he may or may not have mailed, laying out what would likely happen if they did run away together.
Nov 9, 2019 · The first (of five) major—in addition to very many minor—extramarital affairs Wells conduced was with Amber Reeves, and was fictionalised in the in-its-day notorious novel Ann Veronica (1909). Both are discussed in this chapter.
Nov 6, 2021 · Amber Reeves was one of several young Fabian women who were attracted to Wells. The thesis she was supposed to be writing languished while the sexual excitement spurred Wells on to...
May 13, 2016 · A Lady and Her Husband – Amber Reeves. by Emma Schneider. [Persephone Books; 2016] An invigorating combination of proto-feminist socialism and Edwardian concern for properly steeped tea, A Lady and Her Husband returns to print with just the right amount of lace about its bloomers.
Oct 10, 2011 · Remarkably, given this Leporello-scale catalogue, Wells fathered only two children out of wedlock—one deliberately, with the young Fabian Amber Reeves, and one accidentally, with West.
