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Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs of H. G. Wells. (Books).(Book Review)

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From: The Antioch Review
Date: 20020922
Author:Kord, Catherine

Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs of H. G. Wells by Andrea Lynn. Westview Press, 530 pp., $30.00. Prolific novelist and essayist H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was a self-made man who produced popular thrillers on the future, entertainments, world histories and endless utopian directives for society. Among the latter was Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story (1909), which glorified the sexual freedom of the emancipated woman and was a fictionalized account of his own affair with Amber Reeves, a very public scandal at the time. With a wife (1895-1927) apparently untroubled by his extramarital ...

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