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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Aha! Would that be the illegitimate child with Amber Reeves? Daughter of William Pember Reeves? Whom Wells met in the Fabian Society?
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Sorry to have been slow responding - I had to move the sheep to another paddock, then I was on the road, then I got stuck behind a truck...
A perfect answer! More about Amber here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Reeves
That makes her parting of the way with Wells sound a bit more benign than other accounts I've read. According to Amber, she was so distraught on the boat back to England that she wanted to drown herself, and was only prevented by her hobble skirt, which made it too difficult to climb the railing (rather heavy symbolism there, perhaps). She also said, when told that Wells had based his "Ann Veronica" on her, that she'd no idea how he could have picked up any idea of what she thought about anything, as he never listened.
Her daughter was completely ignorant of her relationship with Wells until that first meeting. Amber called her into the room, and said something like, "This is Mr Wells. And he is your father."