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CFP: H. G. Wells: From Kent to Cosmopolis

Mar 10, 2009 15:04

An international conference to be held at the Darwin Conference Suite, University of Kent at Canterbury, England

July 9-11, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERSThe conference marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the H. G. Wells Society in 1960 together with the centenary of Wells’s comic masterpiece The History of Mr Polly. It will take place in ( Read more... )

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oursin March 10 2009, 15:15:38 UTC

I've just floated an abstract for another smaller conference, on Wells annoying feminists in the 1930s - might this fit somewhere? On the other hand I still have my plethora of notes from the trip to Urbana-Champaign to digest and think about working up in various directions.

drasecretcampus March 10 2009, 22:52:09 UTC

I'm pretty sure either would - but perhaps it might be better to wait to see how the abstracts stack up to decide. Urbana-Champaign was all about Rebecca West, yes?

oursin March 11 2009, 11:29:32 UTC

Either Wells destroyed all letters from her*, or they are closed until a significant period after their son's death, I can't recall. No, I was looking more broadly at HGW as a pivotal figure for interwar British progressives and their movements.

*His letters to her are at Yale, and stomach-churningly twee. 'Jaguar wuvs Panfer very much...'

drasecretcampus March 11 2009, 09:41:25 UTC

Looks like we lapped the 2009 conference ( ... )