"From Lottie," came her soft murmur. "Poor dear . . . such trouble . . . left foot . . . Doctor Blyth . . . flat foot . . . massage . . . so many robins this year . . . maid most satisfactory . . . Indian Colonel . . . every grain of rice separate . . . very heavy fall of snow." And her wide lighted eyes looked up from the letter. "Snow, Robert ! Think of it !" (The Man Without a Temperament)

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HG Wells is wrong about feminism, funny, some of the writing is awful -- yet it's irritatingly readable. Margaret Drabble's introduction to Ann Veronica, (1909) sets out the biographical background, how his affairs scandalised Fabians and others. I try to avoid reading English authors, but my dad liked Wells and so I read for that reason too. #Suburbs #Modernwasm #Suffragettes #HGWells

@jntod Welcome to our village Jeremy! hello also #Poetry #modernism and #modernwasm ppl, I actually read Jeremy Noel-Tod's substack when it arrives -- he's good for silliness and seriousness on other subjects too.