Hvem daterte H.G. Wells?

Herbert George «H.G.» Wells (født 21. september 1866, død 13. august 1946 i London) var en britisk forfatter. Han er kjent for sine fem science fiction-bøker Tidsmaskinen (1895), Doktor Moreaus øy (1896), Den usynlige mann (1897), Klodenes kamp (1898) og De første mennesker på månen (1901).

Han var også en framtredende forfatter i en rekke andre sjangre, blant annet samtidsromaner, historie, politikk og sosiale kommentarer, også lærebøker og regelbøker for krigsspill. Wells er tidvis blitt kalt for «science fiction-litteraturens far», i likhet med Jules Verne og Hugo Gernsback. Wells første spesialiserte utdannelse var i biologi, og hans tenkning innenfor etiske emner skjedde i en darwinistisk sammenheng. Han var også fra svært tidlig av en framtredende og frimodig sosialist, ofte (men ikke alltid, som ved begynnelsen av den første verdenskrig) sympatiserte han pasifismen. Hans senere verker ble i økende grad politisk og didaktisk, og tidvis markerte han på offisielle dokumenter at hans yrke var «journalist». De fleste av hans senere romaner var ikke science-fiction, og en del av dem beskrev nedre middelklasseliv, eksempelvis Kipps; The History of Mr Polly, noe som førte at han ble nevnt som en verdig etterfølger av Charles Dickens, men Wells beskrev en utbredt rekke av sosiale samfunnslag og først faktisk som i Tono-Bungay (1909) å komme med en diagnose over det engelske samfunn som en helhet.

Amber Blanco White (née Reeves; 1 July 1887 – 26 December 1981) was a New Zealand-born British feminist writer and scholar.

Odette Zoé Keun (10 September 1888 in Pera – 14 March 1978 in Worthing) was a Dutch socialist, journalist and writer, who traveled extensively in Europe, including the Caucasus and the early Soviet Union.

Maria Ignatievna von Budberg-Bönninghausen (Russian: Мария (Мура) Игнатьевна Закревская-Бенкендорф-Будберг, Maria (Moura) Ignatievna Zakrevskaya-Benckendorff-Budberg, née Zakrevskaya; February 1892 – 1 November 1974), also known as Countess von Benckendorff and Baroness von Budberg, was a Russian adventuress and suspected double agent of the Soviet Union secret police (OGPU) and the British Intelligence Service.

According to the British journalist Robin Bruce Lockhart, who knew her personally, "she was, perhaps, the Soviet Union's most effective agent-of-influence ever to appear on London's political and intellectual stage".

Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman.

Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later The New Meaning of Treason (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows (1956), This Real Night (published posthumously in 1984), and Cousin Rosamund (1985).

Time called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947. She was made CBE in 1949, and DBE in 1959; in each case, the citation reads: "writer and literary critic". She took the pseudonym "Rebecca West" from the rebellious young heroine in Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal.

Margaret Higgins Sanger, også kjent som Margaret Sanger Slee, (født Margaret Louise Higgins 14. september 1879, død 6. september 1966) var en amerikansk sykepleier og pioner innen prevensjon og familieplanlegging. Hun har fått æren for å ha innført begrepet birth control.

Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works are set in Germany. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H. G. Wells, then later married Frank Russell, elder brother of the Nobel Prize-winner and philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield. Though known in early life as May, her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, which she eventually became to friends and finally to family. Arnim published anonymously, or simply as "Elizabeth", or on one occassion as "Alice Cholmondeley". Modern bibliographers attribute her work to Elizabeth von Arnim, her preferred name when her literary career began.