H.G. Wells & Ralph Ellison both wrote about characters called this
Wells's The Invisible Man has given birth to 
innumerable ... to examine Wells's critique of capitalism, both the substance of his 
.... Invisible Man to suggest the self-defeating character of the capitalist economy 
..... Wells in effect anticipates the use that Ralph Ellison was to make of... [DOC] [TLE] About Invisible Man - CliffsNotes [PAR] This quote from Ralph Ellison's review of Swedish sociologist Gunnar ... pointing 
to the lack of positive female characters, and noting that the women in the novel 
... the slave narratives, autobiographies written by formerly enslaved black 
Africans ... Ellison was also influenced by H.G.