[2] They lived initially in Camden Town and Sevenoaks, and later at Woking and Worcester Park in Surrey.

[2][1][9][10] The Times described Catherine Wells as "her husband’s devoted friend and assistant", and "one of the very few transcribers who could read the odd mixture of longhand and shorthand in which he wrote his books", adding that she showed a business acumen which supported her husband.

During her lifetime, Catherine Wells had a small number of writings published, predominantly in .

[6][12][13] Reviewing her stories (published posthumously in The Book of Catherine Wells), Katherine Anne Porter wrote that Catherine Wells' writing was partly a reaction against her identity being subsumed to domestic life and overshadowed by H. G.

She resolutely set herself to write... [and] the stories offer a strange contrast to the portrait her husband gives.

[14]Sylvia Lynd in The Daily News described the collection as offering:a sense of the short story as a medium for revealing life rather than for surprising the reader...

[21] In an obituary in The Times, Catherine Wells was described as having been "an admirable hostess... [with] a pretty sense of humour":Nor was her benevolence confined to her home, which she made an abiding centre of harmony and good-will.

[3] Fifteen pocket book diaries kept by Catherine Wells are held in the archives of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.