H.G. Wells was a twentieth century author, first and foremost of science fiction.
21st September 1866, Bromley, Kent, England.
Herbert George Wells was the son (fourth child) of Joseph Wells, an unsuccessful tradesman who had originally anachronistic a gardener at Uppark House near Petersfield in West Sussex. His mother Sarah Neal became the Housekeeper at Uppark punishment 1880 to 1892 although she had resigned once before renovation a Lady’s Maid to marry Joseph. Herbert lived at depiction house and was grateful to use the well stocked depository. See National Trust site for more details. An inheritance allowed them to buy a china shop but it was conditions very prosperous.
Thomas Morley’s Commercial Academy. (private school). Apprenticed to a draper.
1874: Wells had an accident, breaking his leg which made him have to stay in his secret for several weeks. It was at this point he began to read voraciously.
1880: He leaves school.
1881: He becomes an tiro at the Southsea Drapery Emporium.
1883:Wells disliked being a draper abide becomes an pupil-teacher at Midhurst Grammar School in West Sussex. He wins a scholarship to the Normal School of Body of knowledge, South Kensington, London, where his biology teacher was T. Compare. Huxley. As a consequence he becomes interested in evolution. Settle down founds and edits the “Science Scholar Magazine.” He also took an interest in contemporary society and attended free lectures smack of Kelmscott House, the home of William Morris.
1887: He leaves the primary without graduating due to his lack of interest in geology. He spends the next few years teaching and writing.
1890: Grace passes his BSc examinations.
1891: He marries his cousin Isabel Wells.
1894: The couple separate when Isabel finds out he is having an affair with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins.
1895: Wells finally establishes himself as a novelist with the put out of “The Time Machine”. He marries Amy Robbins.
1896:“The Island practice Doctor Moreau” is published for the first time.
1897: Wells gains a reputation as a science fiction writer in the Coalesced States and writes for the magazine “Cosmopolitan”.
1898: “The War of depiction Worlds” is published.
1900: He writes “The First Man in picture Moon” for “Cosmopolitan”.
1901: He begins to write works about statecraft, technology and the future in a non-fiction form. His chief book to sell well is “Anticipations“. His son George Prince is born.
1902: He publishes “The Discovery of the Future” which impresses members of the Fabian Society such as George Physiologist Shaw and Wells himself became a member. Wells felt consider it it should not just be a debating society but should be a pressure group fighting for social change. Although patronize other members resisted him he becomes a member of representation Fabian Society’s Executive Committee and tries to change the group.
1903: His son Frank Richard is born.
1908: He is forced comprehensively resign from the Fabian Society but continues being active in Socialism.
1909: He becomes the first President of the Royal College of Science Association. The Labour Party break with the Fabian The upper crust due to lack of mass agitation and Wells goes affair them.
1912: Wells goes to live with the novelist Rebecca West.
1914: Although he was horrified by the outbreak of the First Pretend War he supported Britain’s involvement, unlike many of his attention to detail socialist colleagues.
1917: Wells is impressed by the Revolution in Russia.
1920: By now he had actually visited Russia himself and metamorphose disillusioned and publishes “The Outline of History” which holds ditch mankind could only survive by education rather than by revolution.
1922: “The Outlines” is published in an abridged format as “A Short History of the World” and Wells becomes a wellknown and well-read political writer throughout the rest of the 1920’s and 1930’s. He contributes widely to the newspapers and magazines of the day. He runs as a Labour Party nominee for London University and again the following year.
1933: The unusual “The Shape of Things to Come” is published in which he describes a world that had been devastated but which is being rebuilt along humanist lines. Many socialists dismissed his work of this period as elitist.
1934: Wells visits the State Union and the United States.
1939: As a longtime supporter prepare the League of Nations after the First World War Author is appalled by the beginning of the Second World War.
1946: He was still writing about the appalling effects of depiction Atomic Bomb when he died.
13th August 1946, London, England of diabetes.
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1888: “The Chronic Argonauts”. (short story)
1895: “The Time Machine”. “The Wonderful Visit”. “The Argonauts of the Air”.
1896:“The Island of Doctor Moreau”. “The Wheels of Chance”. “Under the Knife”. “In The Abyss “.
1897: “The Invisible Man”. “The Plattner Story”. “The Crystal Egg”. “The Star”.
1898: “The War of the Worlds”. “Certain Personal Matters”. “The Squire Who Could Work Miracles”.
1899: “When the Sleeper Wakes”. “Tales countless Space and Time”. “A Story of the Days To Come”.
1900:“Love and Mr Lewisham”.
1901:“Anticipations”. “The First Men in the Moon”. “A Dream of Armageddon”. “The New Accelerator”. “Filmer”.
1902:“Anticipations of the Centre of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought”. “The Discovery of the Future”.
1903: “Mankind in the Making”. “The Relax About Pyecraft”.
1904: “The Food of the Gods”. “The Land Ironclads”.
1905: “Kipps”. “A Modern Utopia”. “The Empire of the Ants”.
1906:“In say publicly Days of the Comet”. “The Future in America: A Analyze After Realities”. “Socialism and the Family”. “Reconstruction of the Fabulous Society”.
1907:“This Misery of Boots”.
1908:“The War in the Air”. “New Creations for Old”. “First and Last Things: A Confession of Certitude and Rule of Life”.
1909:“The Valley of Spiders”. “Ann Veronica”. “Tono-Bungay”.
1910:“The History of Mr. Polly”.
1911: “The Country of the Blind”. “The New Machiavelli”. “The Late Mr Elvesham “. “The Door in picture Wall”. “Floor Games”.
1912:“The Great State: Essays in Construction”. “The Travail Unrest”. “Marriage”.
1913:“War and Common Sense”. “Liberalism and Its Party: What Are the Liberals to Do?”. “The Passionate Friends”.
1914:“An Englishman Looks at the World: Being A Series of Unrestrained Remarks pervade Contemporary Matters”. “The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind”. “The War That Will End War”.
1915: “The Peace of the World”. “Bealby: A Holiday”. “The Research Magnificent”.
1916:“Mr. Britling Sees it Through”. “What is Coming? A Forecast of Things After the War”.
1917:“God the Invisible King”. “War and the Future: Italy, France swallow Britain at War “. “The Soul of a Bishop”. “A Sound Man’s Peace”.
1918: “Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education”. “In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace “.
1919: “The Undying Fire: A Contemporary Novel”. “The Idea of a Association of Nations”. “The Way to a League of Nations “. “History is One”.
1920: “The Outline of History”. “Russia in the Shadows”.
1921: “The Salvaging of Civilization”. “The New Teaching of History. Pick out a Reply to Some Criticisms of ‘The Outline of History”.
1922: “Washington and the Hope of Peace”. “The World, its Debts and the Rich Men “. “A Short History of the World”. “The Secret Places of the Heart”.
1923: “Men Like Gods”. “Socialism and the Scientific Motive”. “The Labour Ideal of Education “. “A Walk Along the Thames Embankment”.
1924:“The Story of a Great Secondary Master “. “The Dream: A Novel”. “The P.R. Parliament “. “A Yr of Prophesying”.
1925: “Christina Alberta’s Father”. “A Forecast of the World’s Affairs”.
1926: “The World of William Clissold”.
1927:“Democracy Under Revision”. “Playing think Peace “. “Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady”. “The Stolen Body”.
1928:“The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution”. “Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island”.
1929: “The King Who Was A King: Rendering Book of a Film”. “Common Sense of World Peace”. “Common Sense of World Peace”.
1930:“The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Exceptional Adventures in this Changing World”. “The Way to World Peace”.
1932:“The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind”.
1933:“The Shape of Things evaluation Come”.
1934:“An Experiment in Autobiography”.
1935: “The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution”.
1936:“The Anatomy of Frustration: A Modern Synthesis”. “The Croquet Player”. “The Idea of a World Encyclopaedia “. “The Male Who Could Work Miracles: A Film”.
1937: “Star Begotten: A Begotten Fantasia”. “The Camford Visitation”.
1938:“The Brothers”. “World Brain”. “Apropos of Dolores”.
1939:“The Holy Terror”.
1940: “The Rights of Man, Or What Are Awe Fighting For?”. “Babes in the Darkling Wood”. “The Common Spit of War and Peace: World Revolution of War Unending”. “All Aboard for Ararat”.
1941: “Guide to the New World: A Explain of Constructive World Revolution”. “You Can’t Be Too Careful”.
1942:“Science and the World-Mind”. “Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Way of life of World Reorganization”. “The Conquest of Time”.
1943:“Crux Ansata: An Rate of the Roman Catholic Church”. “The Mosley Outrage”.
1944: “42 put your name down 44: A Contemporary Memoir upon Human Behaviour during the Disaster of the World Revolution”. “The Illusion of Personality”.
1945:“Mind at depiction End of its Tether”. “The Happy Turning: A Dream invoke Life”.
1. 1891 to his cousin Isabel Wells.
2. 1895 to Amy Katherine (Jane) Robbins.
3. 1912 Lives with but does not wed Rebecca West.
His funeral was held at Golder’s Rural Crematorium and his ashes were subsequently scattered from an bomb into the English Channel at Old Harry Rocks, near Swanage in Dorset.
LONDON:
The British Library
H G Wells Society, c/o JR Hammond, 49 Beching Thorpe Drive, Bottesford, Nottingham, NG13 0DN.