Spade House, Sandgate, Folkstone, 1901 census...
Wells, Herbert G, 34, Head, Assistant Author, Bromley, Kent
Wells, Amy C, 28, Wife, Shadwell, London
Brooks, Jessie A, 28, Servant, Cook Domestic, Richmond, Surrey
Brooks, Mabel O, 21, Servant, House Maid Domestic, Richmond, Surrey
"In 1891 Wells, married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells, but left her in 1894 for one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins (known as Jane), whom he married in 1895. Poor health took him to Sandgate, near Folkestone, where in 1901 he constructed a large family home—Spade House. He had two sons with Amy Catherine: George Philip (known as "Gip") in 1901 (d.1985) and Frank Richard in 1903.
During his marriage to Amy Robbins, Wells had affairs with a number of women, including the American birth-control activist Margaret Sanger and novelist Elizabeth von Arnim. In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whose parents, William and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society; and in 1914, a son, Anthony West (1914–1987), by the novelist and feminist Rebecca West, twenty-six years his junior. Despite Amy Catherine's knowledge of some of these affairs, she remained married to Wells until her death in 1927. Wells also had affairs with Odette Keun and Moura Budberg." (Wikipedia) I'm surprised that Amy allowed two 20'ish year old servants in the house with HG Wells' roving eye
Still, he was one of my favourite authors
