Did HG Wells Plagiarize From Toronto Woman?

Did HG Wells plagiarize his “The Outline of History,” published in 1920, from a 50-year-old Toronto woman named Florence Deeks? Deeks spent a good part of the the middle and later part of her life trying to prove that Wells had based his work on a manuscript she had sent to Macmillan publishers in 1914. A new book takes up her case in an attempt to win justice…