Love and Mr Lewisham
Love and Mr Lewisham
H.G. Wells drew liberally from his own early life for this sharp, affectionate portrait of a young schoolteacher navigating love, ambition, and the strange spiritualist craze sweeping through late Victorian England. When Mr. Lewisham falls for the enchanting Ethel, he finds his scientific ambitions and political passions suddenly competing with a force he never expected: genuine passion. Wells, still years away from The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, proves himself a master observer of the small dramas that upend ordinary lives. The novel captures a particular moment when old ways of thinking collided with new ones, and when a man might find his carefully constructed future dismantled by a woman who reads palms and speaks of spirits. It is a witty, deeply personal novel that shows the father of science fiction was also a fine anatomist of the human heart, and that even the most rational among us can be undone by love.
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