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The Spinster and the Prophet : Florence Deeks, H. G. Wells, and the Mystery of the Purloined Past by Brian Mckillop is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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<b>Winner of the UBC Medal for Biography and shortlisted for the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize.<br></b><br>The prolific novelist and social prophet H.G. Wells had a way with words, and usually he had his way with women. That is, until he encountered the feisty Toronto spinster Florence Deeks. In 1925 Miss Deeks launched a $500,000 lawsuit against Wells, claiming that in an act of "literary piracy," Wells had somehow come to use her manuscript history of the world in the writing of his internati
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brian Mckillop
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781551990842
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Women
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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