LONDON -- Amber Blanco White, who once collaborated with H.G. Wells in a long career as writer, college lecturer and administrator, has died. She was 94.
Mrs. White's death Dec. 26 was announced Wednesday in a brief newspaper notice.
She was the daughter of William Pember Reeves who set up New Zealand's system of labor relations and his wife, Maud, a prominent Fabian socialist. As a young woman, she caught the notorious roving eye of H.G. Wells at a Fabian Society meeting after her brilliant academic career at Cambridge.
But the young woman's parents intervened and Miss Reeves, by then a student at the London School of Economics, of which her father had become director, married barrister Rivers Blanco White,
Some thought Well's novel 'Ann Veronica' owed something to his friendship with her. In 1932, she collaborated with him in 'The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind.' She also wrote a number of novels and social studies under her own name.
She was only 28 when she was appointed Director of Women's Wages in the newly created Ministry of Labor. But she had the advantage of a stimulating home whose frequent guests included George Bernard Shaw and other famous Fabians.
