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Hg Wells

H.G. WELLS
      Herbert George Wells
  September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946

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Herbert George Wells was born, 21 September, 1866 in Bromley, in the county of Kent, England. Called "Bertie" in the family, he was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells As a son of domestic servants, Wells was raised practically in poverty.   Raised by his father, Joseph Wells failed as a china and sporting goods shopkeeper.   Later in his life Joseph became a professional cricket player.   His mother, Sarah Neal Wells, a housekeeper wasn’t in his life as long as Joseph.

An incident of young Wells’ life was an accident he had in 1874 on the football field, which left him with a broken leg and the loss of a kidney. To pass the time he started reading books brought to him by his father. Wells read ‘everything’ but explicitly excluded Scott. “Wells was later to say that he had been instinctively repelled by Scott’s imagination – but included Chaucer, George Elliot, Dickens, Voltaire, Plutarch’s Lives, Plato’s Republic, Lucretius and the most entrancing book Vathek!” (1. Batchelor).   He soon became interested in other worlds and lives to which books gave him access; they also stimulated him to write. Later that year he entered Thomas Morley's Commercial Academy. At the age of 14, after an inadequate education, Wells aspired a love for teaching.
As for working, he was appreciated to a draper in Windsor. Wells had an unhappy apprenticeship as a draper at the Southsea Drapery Emporium.   He later used his work as a draper as an inspiration for his novels The Wheels of Chance and Kipps.   Therefore, in 1879, his mother arranged for him to become a pupil teacher at National School at Wookey in Somerset.
He soon became an assistant to a chemist then to another draper.

At the age of 18 he won a scholarship to study biology at the Royal College of Science in Kensington, (at the time known as The Normal School of...