In her own right

In her own right

Undoubtedly, Catherine Wells’s greatest achievement was putting up with her husband, the serial philanderer H. G. Wells, for so long – thirty-two years, to be precise, from their marriage in 1895 until her death from cancer in 1927, aged fifty-five. For most of that time, Wells was in love with a succession of women, nearly all of whom did their level best to get him to leave his wife, and two of whom – Amber Reeves and Rebecca West – gave birth…