H. G. Wells

Patrick Parrinder (University of Reading)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

Dates

Born 21 Sep 1866
Died 13 Aug 1946
Activity 1886-1946

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Genres and Modes

Science Fiction/ Speculative

Activities

Primary

Editor
Journalist
Novelist

Other

Autobiographer
Essayist
Historian / Chronicler
Teacher/ Professor

Resources

Wells' Works

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Herbert George Wells, novelist, educator, and social prophet, was born on 21 September 1866 in Bromley, Kent, where his father kept an unsuccessful china shop. He attended Mrs Knotts dame school before proceeding to the Bromley Academy, a private school for tradesmen's sons run by Thomas Morley where book-keeping, arithmetic and copperplate handwriting were the principal subjects of study. At the age of twelve or thirteen Wells produced

The Desert Daisy

(published posthumously in 1957), a humorous comic-strip narrative attributed to the immortal Buss (his family nickname, but doubtless a reference to the inimitable Boz, a pseudonym used by Charles Dickens.). By this time he was Morley's star pupil, being placed first in all England in the College of Preceptors examination in book-keeping.…

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Citation: Parrinder, Patrick. "H. G. Wells". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 March 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4657, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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