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Catherine Wells (née Amy Catherine Robbins;[1] 1871/2–1927)[2] was an English author.[1]
Life[edit]
She was a student of H.G. Wells at the Tutorial College in Holborn, and they married on 27 October 1895.[2] The couple, known to their friends as H. G. and Jane, had two sons: George Philip (b. 1901) and Frank Richard (b. 1903).[2][1] Their household in Worcester Park, Surrey was portrayed by Dorothy Richardson in her novel Pilgrimage (1915).[2] Richardson had been a schoolfriend of Catherine Wells.[2]
Catherine Wells died from cancer in 1927.[1] Her funeral was led by T.E. Page, using a service written by H.G. Wells.[3] He had based this on the secular ceremony script created by humanist and educationist F.J. Gould.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Wells, Catherine (d. 1927) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ a b c d e "Wells, Herbert George [H. G. Wells] (1866–1946), novelist and social commentator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36831. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ a b Wells, Catherine (1928). The Book of Catherine Wells with an introduction by her husband H.G. Wells. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company.