The H.G. Wells Society

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Aims and Functions of the Society

The H.G. Wells Society was founded in 1960. It has an international membership, and aims to promote a widespread interest in the life, work and thought of Herbert George Wells (see "Statement of Objects"). It publishes an annual journal, The Wellsian, and issues a biannual newsletter. It has published a comprehensive bibliography of Wells's published works, and other publications, including a number of works by Wells which have been out of print for many years.

Here is a list of H.G. Wells works currently in print (updated through February 2005), an important note on Wells and Copyright, and a full bibliography.

The Society organises a weekend conference each year when aspects of Wells's life and work are discussed in a congenial atmosphere. Topics discussed in recent years have included

In addition, the Society has organised two major international conferences. The first, under the title, H.G. Wells under Revision, was held in 1986 to mark the 40th anniversary of Wells's death; the second, The Time Machine: Past, Present and Future was held in 1995 to mark the centenary of the publication of Wells's first scientific romance.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

The subscription rate is currently £20 a year (individuals and couples, UK/EU) or £24 (rest of the world); institutional members, £25; retired, unwaged and full-time students, £13 (UK/EU) or £16 (rest of the world). For more information on joining the society, follow this subscription link.

Subscription and other society information is available through:
Eric Fitch
20 Upper Field Close
Hereford
HR2 7SW
England
UK
Please address publicity enquiries to the society's Publicity Officer, Dr Emelyne Godfrey.

A Note on Submissions for the Newsletter:

The next issue (Winter 2012) will be themed on “H.G. Wells’s Cultural Afterlife” and submissions on the influence of Wells’s life and work on any aspect of contemporary arts, television, and film are particularly encouraged. Articles for the Newsletter should be between 500-1000 words in length.

Short articles for consideration, as well as, comments, queries and observations, are welcome via post in the first instance if you do not have access to e-mail. However, in order to produce the Newsletter electronically it is important that submissions, if accepted, are word processed and emailed to me in MS Word, to HGWellsNewsletter@gmail.com.

Post: Dr. Emma V. Miller
H. G. Wells Newsletter
Department of English Studies
Durham University
Room A69
Elvet Riverside
New Elvet
Durham
DH1 3JT

SOCIETY NEWS AND EVENTS

  • CALL FOR PAPERS
    Social Fabrics: Utopias and Dystopias in relation to the Work of William Morris and H. G. Wells
    A Conference Jointly Run by the H.G. Wells Society and the William Morris Society

    Saturday 14 September 2013, The Coach House, Kelmscott House, London, UK
    10.00am-4.30pm

    We are delighted to invite papers on the full range of topics indicated by the title of the conference.
    Please email abstracts of 500 words to Emelyne Godfrey, emelynegodfrey@yahoo.com; Helen Elletson, curator@williammorrissociety.org.uk; Patrick Parrinder, j.parrinder064@btinternet.com; and Sylvia Hardy, sylviahardy@btinternet.com
    Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15 May 2013

    Location of Conference:
    Kelmscott House
    26 Upper Mall
    Hammersmith, W6 9TA
    Nearest tube stations: Ravenscourt Park (10-minute walk) and Hammersmith (15-minute walk).

  • Emelyne Godfrey's new book, Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes, features Wells's sensational novel, Ann Veronica (1909), as a major theme. Masculinity, Crime, and Self Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger will appear in paperback form in March 2013. In the meantime, Palgrave has extended their 50% off rate, and the book is currently offered at half price from Blackwell's, Charing Cross Road.

  • Elizabeth Crawford's website mentions her piece, The Woman’s Bond of Freedom: H.G. Wells, Ann Veronica and the Suffragettes, which was published in the Ann Veronica Special Edition of The Wellsian.

  • The Journalism of H.G. Wells: An Annotated Bibliography by David C. Smith and edited by Patrick Parrinder, is now available with a limited time discount for H.G. Wells Society members. - Click Here for Information -.

  • Click for Patrick Parrinder's review of the society's 2010 From Kent to Cosmopolis conference. It was held at the Darwin Conference Centre, University of Kent at Canterbury, July 9th - 11th, 2010.

  • The first known Mongolian translation of The War of the Worlds is now available from the Mongolian National Association for Control of Infectious Diseases for $16 (US) per copy, including postage and packing. Discounts available for orders of five or more copies. Please contact the association president, Prof. P. Nymadawa at nymadawa@gmail.com for ordering information. The association's special edition includes illustrations and a parallel English translation of what appears to be the authoritative Atlantic edition of 1924.

  • Click for information on The Early Fiction of H.G. Wells: Fantasies of Science, by former HGW Society Secretary Steve McLean, offering a detailed and comprehensive study of the interconnections between Wells's scientific romances and the discourses of science in the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century. It has just been shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science's best book prize for 2009. Also still available is H.G. Wells Interdisciplinary Essays, a collection of mostly new essays from both established scholars and younger researchers and incorporates various aspects of Wells’s position as one of the most important writers of the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth century.

  • Click for information on H.G. Wells in Nature and H.G. Wells' Fin-de-Siecle, both edited by John Partington and published by Peter Lang AG.