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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is most known today for his groundbreaking science fiction novels; he has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a…
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culture · English writer (1866–1946) · writer · historian · journalist · Idist · science fiction writer · novelist · sociologist · screenwriter · also H. G. Wells, Wells, Herbert George, H.G. Wells, Herbert Wells, Herbert G. Wells, Herbert George Wells
Born 21 September 1866 · Died 13 August 1946 · Q42511
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2026· 8 entries
“what a muddle it all is! I haven”
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“His sociological cogitations can be safely ignored, of course, but his romances and fantasies are superb.”
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“it is not now true for me. ... Every believing Christian is, I am sure, my spiritual brother ... but if systemically I called myself a Christian I feel that to most men I should imply too much and so tell a lie”
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“how much better is this amiable miniature [war] than the real thing”
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“The Flowering of the Strange Orchid”
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The Guardian: Back in HG Wells’ time machine: the Stephen Collins cartoon
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The Guardian: War of the Worlds review – HG Wells recast as a fever dream of fear and xenophobia
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2024· 2 entries
Published “Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet — cited 4,795 times.
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Published “Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet — cited 4,572 times.
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: HG Wells, Hitler and Tasmania’s dark past: the stories behind arrival cards in Australia’s National Archives
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: The Time Machine review – radical feminist retelling of the HG Wells classic looks to the future
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The Guardian: The Invisible Man review – therapy and sound effects in HG Wells update
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The Guardian: The Invisible Man review – HG Wells in the psychiatrist’s room
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2021· 5 entries
The Guardian: The Young HG Wells review – the shape of things to come
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TV Guide: The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells
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Published “Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK” in The Lancet — cited 4,168 times.
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Wells was one of six British writers commemorated on a series of UK postage stamps issued by Royal Mail to celebrate British science fiction
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Published “Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK” in The Lancet — cited 4,178 times.
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2020· 1 entry
Mansion Global: Former London Home of Prolific Sci-Fi Writer H.G. Wells Lists for £13.95 Million
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2018· 4 entries
Published “Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018” in Cell Death & Differentiation — cited 5,879 times.
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Published “Drug repurposing: progress, challenges and recommendations” in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery — cited 4,325 times.
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Published “Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018” in Cell Death & Differentiation — cited 6,010 times.
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Published “Drug repurposing: progress, challenges and recommendations” in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery — cited 4,250 times.
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2017· 2 entries
Published “AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both” in BMJ — cited 8,221 times.
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Published “AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both” in BMJ — cited 8,381 times.
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2016· 4 entries
Published “ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions” in BMJ — cited 15,578 times.
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Published “Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease” in Chest — cited 4,175 times.
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Published “ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions” in BMJ — cited 16,050 times.
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Published “Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease” in Chest — cited 4,206 times.
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2012· 2 entries
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,823 times.
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2011· 3 entries
Wells was among a group of science fiction writers featured in the Prophets of Science Fiction series, a show produced and hosted by film director Sir Ridley Scott, which depicts how predictions influenced the developmen
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Published “An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management” in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine — cited 6,129 times.
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Published “An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management” in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine — cited 6,105 times.
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2008· 2 entries
Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physics Letters B — cited 4,187 times.
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Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physics Letters B — cited 4,184 times.
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2002· 1 entry
“Was war eigentlich diese Zeitreiserei? Ein Mann konnte sich doch nicht mit Staub bedecken, indem er sich in einem Paradoxon herumwälzte, oder?" - Die Zeitmaschine, dtv München, 8.Auflage Mai 2002, ISBN 3-423-12234-X, Seite 25”
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2000· 1 entry
“The great author called for a Human Rights Act; 60 years later, we have it”
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1999· 2 entries
Published “A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 4,239 times.
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Published “A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 4,226 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (1997).
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1994· 2 entries
Published “New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement” in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America — cited 5,831 times.
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Published “New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement” in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America — cited 5,872 times.
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1954· 1 entry
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign purchased the H
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1946· 13 entries
Died 1946-08-13.
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“Nie ma gorszych ślepców nad tych, którzy nie chcą widzieć.”
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“Our true nationality is mankind.”
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“Human history is in essence a history of ideas.”
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“W naszym świecie ludzie bogacą się raczej ujmując innym niż służąc.”
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“The War That Will End the War. (ang.)”
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“Vai chegar um momento no dia em que você já escreveu suas páginas pela manhã, respondeu a sua correspondência à tarde, e não tem mais nada para fazer. Então chega aquela hora que você fica entediado; esta é a hora para o sexo.”
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“Em terra de cegos, quem tem um olho é rei.”
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“There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.”
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“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
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“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
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“The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding… Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future. (ang.)”
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“Mir geht es gut." - Letzte Worte, 13. August 1946”
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1943· 2 entries
“A CONTRUÇÃO DO MUNDO, do original "THE WORK, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF MANKIND", H. G. Wells, COMPANHIA EDITORA NACIONAL - 1943, Tradução de Monteiro Lobato, Vol. 2, Cap. XVI, pg. 355.”
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With publication of his book Crux Ansata, subtitled "An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church" in which he attacked Catholicism, Pope Pius XII and called for the bombing of the city of Rome
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1941· 1 entry
“I told you so. You damned fools.”
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1940· 1 entry
“(Original engl.: "Countless people, from maharajas to millionaires and from pukha sahibs to pretty ladies, will hate the new world order, be rendered unhappy by the frustration of their passions and ambitions through its advent and will die protesting against it." - The New World Order (1940) p. 127 books.google)”
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1938· 1 entry
Published a collection of essays on the future organisation of knowledge and education, World Brain, including the essay "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia"
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1936· 3 entries
“The anatomy of frustration: a modern synthesis - página 216, Herbert George Wells - The Macmillan Company, 1936 - 217 páginas”
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Before the Royal Institution, Wells called for the compilation of a constantly growing and changing World Encyclopaedia, to be reviewed by outstanding authorities and made accessible to every human being
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“A Modern Utopia - Página 86, Herbert George Wells - Forgotten Books, 1936, ISBN 1606201840, 9781606201848 - 392 páginas”
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1934· 4 entries
Szilárd took his ideas for a chain reaction to the British War Office and later the Admiralty, assigning his patent to the Admiralty to keep the news from reaching the notice of the wider scientific community
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Of The Diabetic Association (now Diabetes UK, the leading charity for people with diabetes in the UK)
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“I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply”
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Following the German PEN's refusal to admit non-Aryan writers to its membership
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1933· 4 entries
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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“Opis: fragment opubl. w 1933 dzieła Kształt rzeczy przyszłych w którym autor po raz pierwszy używa w stosunku do polskiego Pomorza sformułowania „Korytarz polski” szeroko później wykorzystywanego przez Josepha Goebbelsa.”
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Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin in January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true four months early, in September 1939, with the outbreak of World War II
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When she left Gorky and emigrated to London, their relationship renewed and she cared for him through his final illness
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1932· 2 entries
The physicist and conceiver of nuclear chain reaction Leó Szilárd read The World Set Free (the same year Sir James Chadwick discovered the neutron), a book which he wrote in his memoirs had made "a very great impression
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Career landmark: president (1932–1935).
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1927· 2 entries
Jane died on 6 October 1927, in Dunmow, at the age of 55, which left Wells devastated.
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A Canadian teacher and writer Florence Deeks unsuccessfully sued Wells for infringement of copyright and breach of trust, claiming that much of The Outline of History had been plagiarised from her unpublished manuscript,
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1923· 1 entry
“(Original engl.: "And we know to-day--how little we know. There is never an observation made but a hundred observations are missed in the making of it; there is never a measurement but some impish truth mocks us and gets away from us in the margin of error." - Men Like Gods (1923), III 3. The Service of the Earthling http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200221.txt)”
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1922· 1 entry
With a much shorter popular work, A Short History of the World, a history book praised by Albert Einstein, and two long efforts, The Science of Life (1930)—written with his son G
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1921· 1 entry
“The outline of history; being a plain history of life and mankind - página 1087, Herbert George Wells - The Macmillan Co., 1921 - 1171 páginas”
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1920· 1 entry
“The outline of history: being a plain history of life and mankind - Volume 2, página 572, Herbert George Wells - The Macmillan company,1920”
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1919· 1 entry
“s diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919. Since”
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1918· 1 entry
Wells worked for the British War Propaganda Bureau, also called Wellington House
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1915· 1 entry
“Letter to author Henry James (8 July 1915)”
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1914· 5 entries
“The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914), p. 299”
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“(Original engl.: "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914), in: The works of H.G. Wells, Band 16, Scribner 1924, p. 288 books.google)”
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Had a son, Anthony West (1914–1987), by the novelist and feminist Rebecca West, 26 years his junior
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“The World Set Free (1914)”
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“Why Britain Went to War’, The War Illustrated (10 August 1914), quoted in The War Illustrated Album de Luxe; The Story of the Great European War told by Camera, Pen and Pencil, ed. J. A. Hammerton (1915), p. 10”
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1913· 1 entry
And it made a deep impression on Winston Churchill
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1911· 1 entry
“An Appreciation of H. G. Wells”
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1908· 1 entry
“The War in the Air (1908)”
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1907· 1 entry
“The War in the Air (1907), Ch. VIII, §1”
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1906· 1 entry
“The Future in America (1906)”
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1905· 1 entry
“Kipps the Story of a Simple Soul (1905) Bk. 2, ch. 5”
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1904· 2 entries
“The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904) - Online PDF and Epub”
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“The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)”
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1902· 1 entry
Kept in touch until Wells died in 1946
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1901· 3 entries
He had two sons with Jane: George Philip (known as "Gip"; 1901–1985) and Frank Richard (1903–1982) (grandfather of film director Simon Wells).
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“The Discovery of the Future (1901)”
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“Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901), The Faith, Morals, and Public Policy of The New Republic, pp. 340–343”
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1899· 2 entries
“When The Sleeper Wakes (1899)”
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“Love and Mr Lewisham (1899), Ch. 23”
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1897· 2 entries
“The Star", final line, first published in The Graphic, Christmas issue (1897)”
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“and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!”
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1894· 1 entry
When he had fallen in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins (1872–1927; later known as Jane), with whom he moved to Woking, Surrey, in May 1895
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1891· 2 entries
Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells (1865–1931; from 1902 Isabel Mary Smith)
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“Zoological Retrogression (1891)”
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1883· 1 entry
Wells persuaded his parents to release him from the apprenticeship, taking an opportunity offered by Midhurst Grammar School again to become a pupil–teacher; his proficiency in Latin and science during his earlier short
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1877· 1 entry
His father, Joseph Wells, fractured his femur
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1874· 1 entry
That left him bedridden with a broken leg
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1866· 3 entries
Born 1866-09-21.
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“Wells, Herbert George. Experiment in Autobiography. Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866). — Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1967.”
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“Герберт Джордж Уэллс. Опыт автобиографии. Откровения и заключения одного вполне заурядного ума (начиная с 1866 года) = Experiment in Autobiography. Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866). — М.: Ладомир, Наука, 2007. — С. 389-391.”
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1849· 1 entry
Following the bankruptcy of Morley's earlier school
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