Those same remarks also frequently attest to his cognizance of the previous output of the author whose latest novel or romance he is examining. The contents of these books, except for a very few he scrupulously confesses to have found reader-proof, he conscientiously acquainted himself with, as his remarks on them indicate. By April of 1897, when he effectively relinquished his position, 5 Wells had reviewed more than 285 works of fiction. The latter post he earned through his debut as a literary critic in a sardonic attack on Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did (#1). 2 As if those projects were not enough to occupy his attention, he somehow found time and energy to write speculative essays and review books on scientific subjects for SR, 3 while concurrently acting first as drama critic for the Pall Mall Gazette and then as SR's principal reviewer of fiction. Moreau, and assembling two volumes of his short stories. In those years he was at work revising The Time Machine, seeing to the publication of The Wonderful Visit and The Wheels of Chance, drafting The Island of Dr. 1 The two and a half years or so (from November 1894 to April 1897) during which he regularly submitted brief essays and book reviews to Harris were formative ones for Wells. Wells's association with the Saturday Review began when Frank Harris took over its management in 1894. Wells as Literary Critic for the Saturday Review
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