Kurš datēja Herberts Velss?

Herberts Džordžs Velss (angļu: Herbert George Wells, dzimis 1866. gada 21. septembrī, miris 1946. gada 13. augustā) bija angļu rakstnieks, viens no zinātniskās fantastikas literatūras pamatlicējiem. Viņa pazīstamākie darbi ir romāni "Laika mašīna" (The Time Machine: An Invention, 1895), "Doktora Moro sala" (The Island of Doctor Moreau, 1896), "Neredzamais cilvēks" (The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, 1897), "Pasauļu karš" (The War of the Worlds, 1898), "Pirmie cilvēki uz Mēness" (The First Men in the Moon, 1901). Visi šie darbi tulkoti arī latviešu valodā.

Mūsdienās vispazīstamākie ir tieši Velsa agrīnie darbi, kas tapuši 19. gs. beigās un 20. gs. sākumā, kurus Velss pats dēvēja par "zinātniskajiem romāniem" (scientific romances). Velss kopumā uzrakstījis aptuveni 40 romānus, kā arī vairākus desmitus īsos un garos stāstus, no kuriem vislabāk zināmais ir "Aklo zeme" (The Country of the Blind, 1911).

Uzskatu ziņā Velss bija pazīstamas kā sociālists, redzams Fabiāņu biedrības biedrs. Bieži, bet ne vienmēr, propagandēja pacifistiskus uzskatus. 1933. gadā paredzēja, ka 1940. gada janvārī sāksies pasaules karš. 1940. gadā publicēja darbu "The New World Order" (Jaunā pasaules kārtība), kurā iestājās par Pasaules valdības izveidi.

Odette Zoé Keun (10 September 1888 in Pera – 14 March 1978 in Worthing) was a Dutch socialist, journalist and writer, who traveled extensively in Europe, including the Caucasus and the early Soviet Union.

Margaret Higgins Sanger (née le 14 septembre 1879 à Corning et morte le 6 septembre 1966 à Tucson) est une militante américaine qui lutta pour la contraception et la liberté d'expression, ce qui l'amena à fonder l'American Birth Control League (ligue pour le contrôle des naissances), qui devient le planning familial américain sous le nom de Planned Parenthood. Initialement reçues avec beaucoup de résistances, ses idées qu'une femme puisse décider de quand et comment elle serait enceinte, gagnèrent peu à peu de l'audience, tant dans le public qu'auprès des tribunaux. Margaret Sanger a été un élément fondateur dans l'accès à la contraception et au contrôle des naissances. Sa défense de l'eugénisme négatif en fait une personnalité controversée.

Amber Blanco White (née Reeves; 1 July 1887 – 26 December 1981) was a New Zealand–born British feminist writer and scholar.

Maria (Moura) Ignatievna von Budberg-Bönninghausen (Russian: Мария (Мура) Игнатьевна Закревская-Бенкендорф-Будберг, romanized: Mariya (Mura) Ignatyevna Zakrevskaya-Benkendorff-Budberg; née Zakrevskaya; 6 March 1893 – 1 November 1974), also known as Countess von Benckendorff and Baroness von Budberg, was a Russian translator and suspected double agent of the Soviet Union's Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) and British intelligence agencies.

According to the British journalist Robin Bruce Lockhart, "she was, perhaps, the Soviet Union's most effective agent-of-influence ever to appear on London's political and intellectual stage".

Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman.

Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later The New Meaning of Treason (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows (1956), This Real Night (published posthumously in 1984), and Cousin Rosamund (1985).

Time called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947. She was made CBE in 1949, and DBE in 1959; in each case, the citation reads: "writer and literary critic". She took the pseudonym "Rebecca West" from the rebellious young heroine in Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal in 1966.

Elizabeth von Arnim, de soltera Mary Annette Beauchamp (Sídney, Australia, 31 de agosto de 1866 - Estados Unidos, 9 de febrero de 1941) fue una escritora británica.

Elizabeth fue educada en Inglaterra. A los 24 años se casó con el barón von Arnim y tras adoptar su nombre, se trasladó a las posesiones que su marido tenía en Pomerania (Alemania).

Escribió más de una veintena de libros, la mayoría de ellos novelas. Fue muy admirada en su tiempo, y cobró actualidad en 1993, cuando Mike Newell llevó al cine su novela Un abril encantado. En 1935, Harry Beaumont había dirigido también una versión cinematográfica de esta novela.

Ya se había filmado una película basada en Mr. Skeffington (Vicent Sherman, 1944) con Bette Davis y Claude Rains.