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THE STRANGE CASE OF THE WELLS FARRAGO

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20020929
Author:Jan Gardner

Florence Deeks, an amateur historian in Toronto, was outraged when she read a review of H. G. Wells's "The Outline of History" in 1920. What became Wells's biggest bestseller sounded chillingly similar to her manuscript, which the same publisher had rejected.

Comparing Wells's two-volume world history with the dog-eared manuscript Macmillan had returned to her, she became convinced that Wells had plagiarized her work. The two histories were similar in structure and diction, though Deeks emphasized women's role and Wells ignored it. Furthermore, in reworking her manuscript after it had been ...

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