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The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
H. G. Wells
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Sir Isaac paused before answering. "We don't want to know a lot of people," he said. "And, besides——Why! anybody could make us go running about all over London calling on them, by just coming and calling on us. No sense in it. She's come and she's gone, and there's an end of it."
"No," said Lady Harman, gripping her tassel more firmly. "I shall have to return that call."
"I tell you, you won't."
"It isn't only a call," said Lady Harman. "You see, I promised to go there to lunch."
"Lunch!"
"And to go to a meeting with her."
"Go to a meeting!"
"—of a society called the Social Friends. And something else. Oh! to go to the committee meetings of her Shakespear Dinners Movement."
"I've heard of that."
"She said you supported it—or else of course. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Despite sporting one of the blandest titles in the vast savannah of the Wells canon, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman is an interesting novel in the mould of Ann Veronica, exploring female emancipation and the erosion of conventional marriage expectations, with another mercurial heroine in the form of E
Well, what a wonderful book this was. So typically un H G Wells. Similar to his work on the women’s movement and right to vote, this is set in a similar time period. You would not expect this from Wells.
A strong and independent woman marries an equally strong willed man. They are both at loggerheads
Another really fantastic Wells that I can't believe is not better known.There is so mich that is interesting about this novel, starting with the title - Ellen Harmon fights so long and hard for her own identity, what is Wells saying by always identifying her as somebody's wife? Lots of familiar subj