regshoe

The really odd thing about HGW is that there are points in Anne Veronica where he appears to Get It about the situation of women (though he's mean about suffrage movement), and then it all goes to hell when she falls in love with Marty Stu character.

He was one of those people who was clearly amazingly influential on his contemporaries (I spent a month in Urbana-Champaign going through his correspondence) but has really really faded. Okay, the early scientific romances still survive, and the early novels have a certain interest (?not as good as A Bennett, perhaps), but oh dear, the novels he wrote about various Big Ideas he had, and also, featuring excuses for running off with younger lady.