{"product_id":"the-open-heart-stories-poetry-of-catherine-wells-9781835622551","title":"The Open Heart: Stories \u0026 Poetry of Catherine Wells","description":"\u003cb\u003ePublished for the first time, The Open Heart is a telling tale of unfulfilment from the supportive, but long-neglected wife of H.G. Wells.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCatherine Wells (1872-1927) was the wife of H.G. Wells and the author of short stories, poems and an unfinished novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Open Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, a haunting study of a woman's sense of unfulfilment that adds significantly to our knowledge of early 20th-century feminism. Published here for the first time, \u003ci\u003eThe Open Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is brought together with her stories and poems that appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Catherine Wells \u003c\/i\u003e(1928). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Open Heart\u003c\/i\u003e tells of a woman's shipwreck on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, a kind of earthly paradise in which she finds herself entirely alone. Included, too, in this collection are Catherine Wells' highly accomplished tales of forbidden love, of a woman's subjection to a dominant and possessive husband and of female despair. These stories illustrate what H.G. Wells called 'her brooding tenderness', her 'sense of invincible fatality' and her 'predisposition towards a haunting, dreamland fantasy of fear'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eFlame Tree Beyond and Within\u003c\/b\u003e short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Wells\u003c\/b\u003e (1872-1927), 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 creating her own stories, long-neglected until now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmelyne Godfrey\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, is Chairperson of the H.G. Wells Society. She is author of \u003ci\u003eFemininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). In 2014 she edited \u003ci\u003eThe Convert\u003c\/i\u003e, the first suffragette novel, originally published in 1907. Most recently, she was editor of \u003ci\u003eUtopias\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Dystopias\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ein the Fiction of H.G. Wells and William Morris\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Parrinder\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eOxford History of the Novel in English \u003c\/i\u003e(2011-24).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Flame Tree Collections","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51201405616402,"sku":"9781835622551","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e1e7b14-c402-4846-9c9b-0b81102781f9.jpg?v=1744912065","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-open-heart-stories-poetry-of-catherine-wells-9781835622551","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}