The Open Heart

Auteur

Catherine Wells (18721927), born Amy Catherine Robbins, worked as a teacher and studied at Tutorial College, Holborn where she met and later married H.G. Wells. She is regarded as a great supporter of her husband's literary outpourings, while quietly her creating her own stories, long-neglected until now.

Dr Emelyne Godfrey is an author, freelance writer and broadcaster. She writes widely on women's history, crime, science fiction and the supernatural. In 2016, she edited Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of William Morris and H.G. Wells: Landscape and Space. Emelyne is on the committee of the H.G. Wells Society and is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement.

Patrick Parrinder is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Reading and President of the H.G. Wells Society. He is the author of many books on H.G. Wells, science fiction and modern literature and is General Editor of the 12-volume Oxford History of the Novel in English (201124).

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Catherine Wells was both the wife of the famous H.G. Wells and the author of short stories, poems and an unfinished novella, The Open Heart, a haunting study of a woman's sense of unfulfilment that adds to our knowledge of early 20th-century feminism. The Open Heart is published here for the first time, accompanied by her short stories and poems.