Journey to the Centre of my Mattress

It turns out that HG Wells was quite the prophet
of the sexual revolution.
He had them waiting out the door, and around the corner.
Women, that is.

Forget all the popular pseudo-science novels that he wrote like:

Journey to the Centre of the Earth, sorry that was Jules Verne
5000 Leagues under the Sea, and this one. I don't know books, really
* The Time Machine (1895)- how to find time for sex
* The Wonderful Visit (1895)- goes without comment
* The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
* The Wheels of Chance (1896)- take a gamble on a chick
* The Invisible Man (1897)- you wouldn't that nickname from your mistress
* When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)- and presses charges
* Love and Mr Lewisham (1900)
* The First Men in the Moon (1901)- a euphemism for a woman's butt. They didn't have fake tan then, and they were a bit large.
* The War of the Worlds (1898)- nothing worse than a woman scorned

[radio interview with Orson and HG- Warheads]

Being an author left him plenty of time to get it on with all sorts. And apparently, he wasn't the DSK of the party. Women were hitting on him.

Mighty gentlemanly was he, I must say.

checkitout:
HG Wells: prophet of free love
HG Wells, author of more than 100 books, was also a prophet of the sexual revolution. David Lodge delves into his many affairs and, below, DJ Taylor considers his literary achievement
* David Lodge
* guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 March 2011 10.00 GMT


Wells was also a prophet of the sexual revolution of our own era. He believed in free love and practised it tirelessly. He was married twice to women he loved, but neither of whom satisfied him sexually, and had several long-term relationships, as well as innumerable briefer affairs, mostly condoned by his second wife, Jane. Of particular interest because of the scandal they aroused were his relationships with three young women half his age: Rosamund Bland, the secretly adopted daughter of Edith and Hubert Bland, who was actually fathered by Bland on Edith's companion and housekeeper, Alice Hoatson; Amber Reeves, a brilliant Cambridge undergraduate, also the daughter of prominent Fabians; and Rebecca West, whom he invited to his Essex country house in 1912 to discuss her witty demolition of his novel Marriage in the feminist journal The Freewoman, a meeting that led in due course to the birth of Anthony West on the first day of the first world war, and a stormy relationship that lasted for some 10 years. Reeves also became pregnant by Wells, by her own desire, with dramatic consequences. There were interesting liaisons with the novelists Dorothy Richardson (who portrayed Wells in her novel sequence Pilgrimage), Violet Hunt and Elizabeth von Arnim. Then there was Moura, Baroness Budberg, a Russian aristocrat who survived the Russian revolution as the secretary and probably mistress of Maxim Gorky and with whom Wells slept when staying in Gorky's flat in Petrograd in 1920. They met again after Jane's death in 1927. Moura was the great love of his later life and his acknowledged mistress, but refused to marry or cohabit with him. Wells has the reputation of being a predatory seducer, but in all the relationships I investigated, with the possible exception of the always inscrutable Moura, he was initially the pursued rather than the pursuer.