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             Herbert George Wells was born into a rather lower-middle-class English family in Bromley, Kent, a suburb of London, on September 21, 1866. His father, Joseph Wells, was a celebrated cricket player turned failed shopkeeper. His mother, Sarah Neal Wells, was a housekeeper and a lady’s maid, “whose fondest dream was that young ‘Bertie’ and his two older brothers should become respectable tradesmen in the service of the upper classes,” (Murray 309). When he was nearly seventeen, Wells finally convinced his mother that various apprentice positions left him desperately unhappy. She allowed him to enroll as a pupil-tutor at the Midhurst Grammar School, and to later accept a scholarship at the Normal School of Science in South Kensington (which later became Imperial College, London University). Here, preparing for a teaching career, Wells studied biology, geology, and astronomical physics. After completing his training in Kensington, Wells taught at a wretched boy’s school in Wales. A year later he was back in London, conducting adult education classes at the University Correspondence College. He supplemented his income by selling brief articles on scientific subjects to newspapers and magazines seeking large circulations among members of Britain’s middle and lower
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