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The Roving Impulses of H. G. Wells
| As a young man H. G. Wells knew next to nothing about sex and the sexual
impulses that he was feeling. While at university he was jealous of the boys
that talked to the girls in a very fluid way. The first time Wells met his
cousin Isabel, he was immediately infatuated with her and longed for her
until they married.
While Wells was still courting Isabel he left for a period to be an assistant school master in Wales and met a young woman there. He began to court her but left when he shattered his kidney and never returned. After Wells had married Isabel he began do see their incompatibilities and during a biology demonstration he met a student named Amy Catherine Robbins. Wells took a liking to Catherine and when Isabel's and his marriage ended he began to live with her. After years of marriage with Catherine, Wells was still unfaithful but she never took it to heart and stayed with him. Wells became known as the Don Juan of the English intelligentsia because of his roving sexual impulses. These roving sexual impulses ironically prevented Wells from loving any woman. Among H. G.'s most noteworthy affairs is Ann Veronica, a young woman whom Wells had a short affair with but later wrote about it in the book "Ann Veronica." One day Wells realized that "all the energy of life is sublimated from sexual energy" which ended a great conflict in himself and helped to cool his sexual impulses. |
Copyright 2000 Roman Allemann