Ann Veronica

An H.G. Wells in a Virago Classic edition? You heard right. The first novel from Wells exploring the New Woman movement in the 1900s, i.e. the proto-proto-feminist movement, the first flush of the suffrage movement (the other, The New Machiavelli is not as interesting), was a scandalous revelation a......more

Sama činjenica da je jedan muškarac daleke 1909.napisao ovakvo djelo koje podržava žensku slobodu i prava ne dozvoljava mi kao ženi i feministkinji da dam manje od 5⭐️! Tada zabranjivana knjiga, sada samo dokaz da se mnogo šta promijenilo, a suštinski sve ostalo isto, što joj dodaje posebnu dozu gor......more

So H. G. Wells writes science fiction, right? Right? WRONG!!! From the man who penned such stories as The Time Machine, and The War of the Worlds comes Ann Veronica, a story of feminism, drama, and romance. And no element of science fiction in this book, no Sir. Sure, Vee (can I call her Vee? Everyon......more

Ann Veronica is the youngest of five children and the only one left at home. Finding a life of "calls, tennis, selected novels, walks and dusting" to be stifling, she has persuaded her father to let her attend college, although only the Tredgold Women's College, not the more prestigious "mixed" coll......more

Two sides of H.G. Wells Getting to know that Herbert Wells wrote not only fantastic novels appeared to be a great surprise for me. His Time Machine and War of the Worlds were quite familiar to me, but somehow I've never heard about his social novels. Preparing for my university English literature......more