See also:

• HERBERT (FAMILY)
• HERBERT, GEORGE (1593-1633)
• HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM
• HERBERT, SIR THOMAS (1606-1682)

HERBERT See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• HERBERT GEORGE WELLS (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

WELLS (1866— )  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English novelist was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BROMLEY
• BROMLEY, SIR THOMAS (1530-1587)

Bromley, See also:

• KENT
• KENT, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• KENT, JAMES (1763-1847)
• KENT, WILLIAM (1685-1748)

Kent, on the 21st of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1866, the son of See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

Wells, a professional cricketer . He was educated at See also:

• MIDHURST

Midhurst See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar school and at the Royal See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science, where he was trained in physics, See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry, See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology and See also:

• BIOLOGY (Gr. Qios, life)

biology . He graduated B.Sc. of See also:

• LONDON

London University in 1888 with first-class honours, taught science in a private school, and subsequently did private coaching . In 1893 he began to write for the See also:

• PALL

Pall Mall See also:

• GAZETTE

Gazette, of which he was dramatic critic in 1895 . He also wrote for Nature and the Saturday See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review . After the A.-WELLS success of his fantastic See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story The See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

Time See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

Machine (1895) he gave his time chiefly to the See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing of romances, in which the newest scientific and technical discoveries were used to advance his views on politics and See also:

• SOCIOLOGY

sociology . But he did not confine himself to fiction . His Anticipations (1902) showed his real See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift for sociological See also:

• SPECULATION

speculation . Beginning with a See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter on the means of locomotion in the 20th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, it went on to discuss See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war, the conflict of See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, faith, morals, the elimination of the unfit, and other See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general topics, with remarkable acuteness and constructive ability . In The See also:

• DISCOVERY

Discovery of the Future (1902), Mankind in the Making (1903), A See also:

• MODERN

Modern See also:

• UTOPIA

Utopia (1905) and New Worlds for Old (1908) his socialistic theories were further See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed . As a novelist, meanwhile, he had taken a very high See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . Some earlier stories, such as The Wheels of See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

Chance (1896) and Love and Mr See also:

• LEWISHAM

Lewisham (1900), had proved his See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent for See also:

• DRAWING

drawing See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, and pure phantasies like The War of the Worlds (1898) his abundant invention; but Kipps (1905) and Tono-See also:

• BUNGAY

Bungay (1909) showed a See also:

• GREAT

great advance in See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power .

The See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his See also:

• WORKS

works of fiction includes The Stolen Bacillus and other Stories (1895), The Wonderful Visit (1895), The See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island of See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

Doctor See also:

• MOREAU, GUSTAVE (1826-1898)
• MOREAU, HEGESIPPE (18ro-1838)
• MOREAU, JEAN VICTOR MARIE (1763-1813)

Moreau (1896), The See also:

• PLATTNER, KARL FRIEDRICH (1800-x858)

Plattner Story and Others (1897), When the See also:

• SLEEPER

Sleeper Wakes (1899), The First Men in the See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

Moon (1901), The See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

Food of the Gods (1904), In the Days of the See also:

• COMET (Gr. Koµieiis, long-haired)

Comet (1906), The War in the See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

Air (1908), See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne See also:

• VERONICA, ST

Veronica (1909), The See also:

• HISTORY

History of Mr Polly (1910) .