Frances Wilson

Yours disgusted, H.G. Wells: the young writer finds marriage insufferable

Marital fidelity was a bore and a burden, said Wells, who separated from his wife after three years to embark on a life of ‘enterprising promiscuity’

H.G. Wells in his late twenties. [Bridgeman Images]
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