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Description edit
In 1920, H. G. Wells published his best-selling The Outline of History. Several years earlier, Florence Deeks had sent a similar work to Wells’s North American publisher. Deeks’s The Web was a history of the world with an emphasis on the role that women played. Her book was rejected. Upon... read more
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Characters/People edit
- H.g. Wells: Add a description of this character.
- Frederick Macmillan
- John Saul
- Florence Deeks
- Mabel
- George Brett
- Robertson
- William Irwin
- Catherine Wells
- Raney
- Jane
- Huxley
- Hugh Eayrs
- Underhill
- Hector Charlesworth
- Frank Wise
- Rebecca
- Kennedy
- Bertram
- Richard Gregory
- Ann Veronica
- Mclaughlin
- Gilbert Murray
- Annie
- Elliott
- Daynes
- Ogden
- Isabel
- Duruy
- Burpee
- Helen
- Moorhead
Setting & Locations edit
- Toronto
- London
- England
- New York
- Macmillan Of Canada
- Ontario
- Easton Glebe
- Morrisburg
- Ottawa
- Bond Street
- Lewisham
- Europe
- Born
- Rome
- Osgoode Hall
- Victoria College
- Atlantic
- North America
- Cambridge
- United States
- Greece
- Hampstead
- France
- Columbus
- Paris
- Massey Hall
- New Machiavelli
- Winnipeg
- Up Park
- Russia
- India
- Aspasia
- Montreal
- Morang
- Macmillan Company
- Britain
- Italy
- Africa
- Kensington
- Oxford
- Bromley
- China
- Mankind
- Farnham Avenue
First Sentence edit
INSIDE THE PARLOUR WINDOW on a cold weekend evening a week before Christmas, 1920, a woman settles into her favourite chair to read the latest issue of Saturday Night magazine.
Authors & Contributors edit
- A. B. McKillop (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 941.08092
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