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The H.G. Wells Society
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.
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
The Short Stories of H.G. Wells
Publishing and Publicising Wells
Wells's Literary Friendships
The War of the Worlds(The proceedings of this conference appear in Foundation 77)
Wells and his Critics
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 £18 a year (UK/EU) or £21 (rest of the
world); couples, £21; institutional members, £22; retired, unwaged and
full-time students, £12 (UK/EU) or £15 (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.
SOCIETY NEWS AND EVENTS
On
Saturday 24 September Michael Sherborne will also be giving a talk at Uppark, the National Trust property in
Sussex where Wells’s mother was housekeeper, focusing on how the house influenced him. The house will be shut except to those attending. Sherborne will lead tours of the house at 1.30 pm
and 2.30 pm, during which actors will appear as Wells, his mother and the butler. The talk will be at 3.45 pm after a refreshment break. Tickets for this event cost £20
from the Havant Literary Festival, PO Box 231, Havant, Hampshire PO9 9DH,
though the hope is that if the Society can organise a group, a
reduced entry rate may be negotiated. See flyer link to the left.
On the same day,
24 September, David Lodge will give a talk about Wells at Havant College as part of the same
festival. See flyer link to the right.
Also on 24 September, the Spread Eagle Hotel in Midhurst will hold an H.G. Wells Night
with a drinks reception and dinner, with performances from a troupe called Twisted Events (Ben Cooper).
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.