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Analysis of the ‘open-marriage’ Wells negotiated with his wife Jane and discussion of the importance of sex to Wells as a person and a writer. The two novels The Sea Lady (1902) and The Food of the Gods (1904) are discussed in detail.
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Roberts, A. (2019). Sex. In: H G Wells. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26421-5_8
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