59 Facts About HG Wells

Novels of social realism such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class English life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but HG Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay, a diagnosis of English society as a whole.

HG Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

HG Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a Darwinian context.

HG Wells was an outspoken socialist from a young age, often sympathising with pacifist views.

HG Wells was a diabetic and co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association in 1934.

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Joseph HG Wells managed to earn a meagre income, but little of it came from the shop and he received an unsteady amount of money from playing professional cricket for the Kent county team.

HG Wells soon became devoted to the other worlds and lives to which books gave him access; they stimulated his desire to write.

The teaching was erratic, the curriculum mostly focused, HG Wells later said, on producing copperplate handwriting and doing the sort of sums useful to tradesmen.

HG Wells's parents had a turbulent marriage, owing primarily to his mother's being a Protestant and his father's being a freethinker.

In October 1879, HG Wells's mother arranged through a distant relative, Arthur Williams, for him to join the National School at Wookey in Somerset as a pupil–teacher, a senior pupil who acted as a teacher of younger children.

In 1883, HG 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 stay had been remembered.

The following year, HG Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, studying biology under Thomas Henry Huxley.

HG Wells studied in his new school until 1887, with a weekly allowance of 21 shillings thanks to his scholarship.

HG Wells was among the founders of The Science School Journal, a school magazine that allowed him to express his views on literature and society, as well as trying his hand at fiction; a precursor to his novel The Time Machine was published in the journal under the title The Chronic Argonauts.

HG Wells's stay in The Potteries resulted in the macabre short story "The Cone", set in the north of the city.

HG Wells later received his Licentiate and Fellowship FCP diplomas from the college.

HG Wells's first published work was a Text-Book of Biology in two volumes .

HG Wells did not automatically receive the byline his reputation demanded until after 1896 or so.

HG Wells had two sons with Jane: George Philip and Frank Richard .

HG Wells's was cremated at Golders Green, with friends of the couple present including George Bernard Shaw.

HG Wells repeatedly asked her to marry him, but Budberg strongly rejected his proposals.

In Experiment in Autobiography, HG Wells wrote: "I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply".

Director Simon HG Wells was born on 1961, and the author's great-grandson, was a consultant on the future scenes in Back to the Future Part II .

One of the ways that HG Wells expressed himself was through his drawings and sketches.

HG Wells wrote realistic novels that received critical acclaim, including Kipps and a critique of English culture during the Edwardian period, Tono-Bungay.

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HG Wells wrote dozens of short stories and novellas, including, "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid", which helped bring the full impact of Darwin's revolutionary botanical ideas to a wider public, and was followed by many later successes such as "The Country of the Blind" .

HG Wells conceived the idea of using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time.

The term "time machine", coined by HG Wells, is almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle.

HG Wells's novel revolves around an invention that accelerates the process of radioactive decay, producing bombs that explode with no more than the force of ordinary high explosives—but which "continue to explode" for days on end.

HG Wells's bestselling two-volume work, The Outline of HG Wells'story, began a new era of popularised world history.

HG Wells portrayed the rise of fascist dictators in The Autocracy of Mr Parham and The Holy Terror .

HG Wells contemplates the ideas of nature and nurture and questions humanity in books such as The First Men in the Moon, where nature is completely suppressed by nurture, and The Island of Doctor Moreau, where the strong presence of nature represents a threat to a civilized society.

Not all his scientific romances ended in a Utopia, and HG Wells wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes, which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

Since "Barbellion" was the real author's pen name, many reviewers believed HG Wells to have been the true author of the Journal; HG Wells always denied this, despite being full of praise for the diaries.

However, it was sworn on oath at the trial that the manuscript remained in Toronto in the safekeeping of Macmillan, and that HG Wells did not even know it existed, let alone had seen it.

In 1933, HG 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.

In 1936, before the Royal Institution, HG 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.

At a PEN conference in Ragusa, HG Wells refused to yield to Nazi sympathisers who demanded that the exiled author Ernst Toller be prevented from speaking.

HG Wells coined the expression with the idealistic belief that the result of the war would make a future conflict impossible.

HG Wells blamed the Central Powers for the coming of the war and argued that only the defeat of German militarism could bring about an end to war.

HG Wells used the shorter form of the phrase, "the war to end war", in In the Fourth Year, in which he noted that the phrase "got into circulation" in the second half of 1914.

In 1918 HG Wells worked for the British War Propaganda Bureau, called Wellington House.

HG Wells revealed his impressions in "Russia and England: A Study on Contrasts" in The Daily News, on 1 February 1941 and in the novel Joan and Peter .

HG Wells told Stalin how he had seen 'the happy faces of healthy people' in contrast with his previous visit to Moscow in 1920.

Chesterton quipped: "Mr HG Wells is a born storyteller who has sold his birthright for a pot of message".

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HG Wells had diabetes, and was a co-founder in 1934 of The Diabetic Association .

On 28 October 1940, on the radio station KTSA in San Antonio, Texas, HG Wells took part in a radio interview with Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed a famous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds.

HG Wells died of unspecified causes on 13 August 1946, aged 79, at his home at 13 Hanover Terrace, overlooking Regent's Park, London.

HG Wells's body was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 16 August 1946; his ashes were subsequently scattered into the English Channel at Old Harry Rocks, the most eastern point of the Jurassic Coast and about 3.

Futurist and "visionary", HG Wells foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web.

HG Wells was the twentieth-century prototype of this literary vatic figure: he invented the role, explored its possibilities, especially through new forms of prose and new ways to publish, and defined its boundaries.

In 2011, HG 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 development of scientific advancements by inspiring many readers to assist in transforming those futuristic visions into everyday reality.

HG Wells was a socialist and a member of the Fabian Society.

HG Wells referred to the era between the two World Wars as "The Age of Frustration".

In God the Invisible King, HG Wells wrote that his idea of God did not draw upon the traditional religions of the world:.

Science fiction author and critic Algis Budrys said HG Wells "remains the outstanding expositor of both the hope, and the despair, which are embodied in the technology and which are the major facts of life in our world".

HG Wells so influenced real exploration of space that an impact crater on Mars was named after him.

HG Wells's genius was his ability to create a stream of brand new, wholly original stories out of thin air.

In 2021, HG Wells was one of six British writers commemorated on a series of UK postage stamps issued by Royal Mail to celebrate British science fiction.