H.G. Wells, Little Wars, Floor Games, Toy Theatres and Magic Cities

A page devoted to my occasional blog posts about H.G. Wells, the men and women around him who helped shape his toy soldier books Floor Games 1911 and Little Wars 1913, as well as Edith Nesbit’s Wings and The Child or the Building of Magic Cities 1913.

H.G. Wells

Little Wars – Scholarly Editing text, 2017 (Deanna Stover and Nigel Lepianka)

https://scholarlyediting.org/2017/editions/littlewars

Archive or Project Gutenberg sources of Little Wars and Floor Games

https://archive.org/details/littlewarsgamefo00well

https://archive.org/details/floorgames00well

The Invisible Men and Women behind Floor Games and Little Wars?

More about the friends, the illustrator and publisher and the Wells household behind Floor Games and Little Wars –

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/21/the-invisible-men-and-women-behind-h-g-wells-little-wars-and-floor-games/

Who were a “certain Mr M. and his brother Captain M, hot from the Great War in South Africa?” Charles and Captain Walter S. Masterman from the remarkable Masterman family:

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/mr-m-and-his-brother-captain-hot-from-the-great-war-in-south-africa-identified-h-g-wells-and-little-wars-1913/

Three more players of Little Wars or The Floor Game identified – thanks to Mathilde Meyer, the family’s Swiss Governess who wrote her memoir H.G. Wells and his Family (1955) – Mr M. or Charles Masterman, Harold Hobson and E.S.P. Haynes

And also Mr W., the socialist writer Graham Wallas and Wells’ invalid friend who died – George Gissing …

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/three-more-players-of-h-g-wells-floor-game-little-wars-1913/

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/mr-w-and-a-dear-friend-who-died-two-more-invisible-men-behind-little-wars-1913/

Mr J.K.J – Jerome K. Jerome, Little Wars and his experiences in the Great War as a French ambulance driver https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/a-broken-man-jerome-k-jerome-the-war-game-little-wars-and-his-service-in-the-great-war/

R. Thurston Hopkins – writer and an accidental witness to the publishing deal for Little Wars:

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/r-thurston-hopkins-on-rls-h-g-wells-and-little-wars/

Mathilde Meyer’s description of the Floor Game as played by Wells’ two sons:

https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/little-wars-some-more-from-the-memoir-of-mathilde-meyer-governess-to-h-g-wells-children/

Two (or three?) more distinguished players of Little Wars or the Floor Game as it is known in Mathilde Meyer’s fascinating memoir – Reginald Turner, Hugh Cranmer Byng and Captain Launcelot Cranmer Byng, November 1913: https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/two-more-players-of-little-wars-november-9th-1912/