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When I was a boy in the reign of Edward the Seventh, a day seldom passed without the name of H.G. Wells cropping up in some connection or other. But it could not be mentioned in my mother’s hearing, or in the house of my best friend. At the house of the Chestertons I had seen Wells now and then, and listened to his squeaky voice vigorously contradicting people and making exciting assertions that lit up one’s imagination. I had read everything of his that I could get hold of. It seems funny now that I had to hide his books from my mother. She confiscated Ann Veronica and Marriage.1
The Eye of the Beholder (London: Hutton Press, 1957) pp. 224–35.
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Sieveking, L. (1980). H.G. Wells. In: Hammond, J.R. (eds) H. G. Wells. Interviews & recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04967-7_12
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