Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

government for deporting Goldman and for the infamous Palmer raids. Wells in 1913 after her provocatively damning review of his novel Marriage prompted him to invite her to lunch. to give lectures meet artists and get involved in the political scene.

Time called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947. She was made CBE in 1949 and DBE in 1959 in recognition of her outstanding contributions to British letters.