My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

I loved going to college.

It's good you can retrain and do something.

Yeah, yeah.

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She published her first book The Life and Death of Mary Wollstone Craft in 1974 and has since written

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Samuel Peeps. Her latest book is The Young H.G. Wells, changing the world.

Claire Tomlin, thanks for joining me.

Well, I'm very pleased to be with you.

So what, I mean, spur spurred you to take on a biography in general, and I guess this one in particular, is it your sort of awareness that there's access to unexploited sources or a feeling from reading sort of existing books that there's a new argument to make that something has not been said yet.

Well, no, it's because it's somebody I've always been interested in whose work I've been interested in and I just thought I wanted to spend time with.

I read your memoir recently and you mentioned there that Wells' realist novels gave your French father a sort of a vision of English life,

that sort of perhaps what to expect. So was your first encounter with him those books,

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