H. G. Wells writings were influenced by things such as Darwinism, the first World War,and involved extensive predictions, futuristic inventions, and humor.
Herbert George Wells was born in Bromely, Kent, England in 1866. His fatherwas a shopkeeper, and his mother was a house keeper. While Wells attended MorleysSchool in Bromely, most of his education came from reading. In 1874 Wells startedreading lots of books while he was laid up in bed with a broken leg.
From 1880 to 1883Wells was a drapers apprentice in Windsor. After a year as a teacher in a private schoolWells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in South Kensington. Wellsdid well his first year, then faltered during his second year and left without a degree in1877. Wells did not get his B. S. degree until 1890.
In 1891 Wells started teaching in a correspondence college, and got married tohis cousin Isabel. In 1895 he began his successful literary career with The TimeMachine. During this time he gave up teaching and left Isabel for one of his students,Amy Catherine Robbins. This caused him to write scientific romances such as TheIsland of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and others.
Wells dissliked the limitations of this type or writing so he started writing novelssuch as Love and Mr. Lewisham, Kipps, Tongo Bungay, and others. These novels arefull of a spirit of hostility to the victorian social order. Desiring to make explicit hiscriticisms of the past and hishopes for the future, Wells started his career as a prophetwith Anticipations, Mankind in the Making, A Modern Utopia.
In 1911 Wells wrote his last novel of literary importance was The NewMachiavelli, which was inspired by his meeting with George Bernard Shaw and theFabian society. In 1912 Wells began a 10 year relationship with the writer RebeccaHenry James had sought to make Wells a disciplined artist in fiction, but Wellsseverely criticized him in his book Boon. During World War I, Wells proved to be anexcellent propagandist in Mr. Britling Sees it ThroughWells continued writing with Outline of History, The Science of Life, The OpenConspiracy: Blueprints For a World Revolutions, and several others.
The influencesWells had on society were innumerable. He was a literary and a social figure. Hebelonged to the Fabian Society, which wants change through democratic reform. Hedefined a generation and their social and political view using martians and invisible men.
Wells had a talent in writing and used it. H. G. Wells was a very talented writer. He used many many things in his writingssuch as a vivid reproduction of the things he has experienced, which is demonstrated inLove and Mr.
Lewisham which talks about his student days ant South Kensington. healso uses a remorseless vision. The Time Machine shows his high measure of invention,with the idea of having a machine that can travel through time. Wells also showsunlimited ingenuity, and also seems to give an illusion of concrete reality. In many of hisworks Wells shows a rich vein of humor as you can read in Tongo Bungay.
He also uses excellent descriptice power. Wells was also good at predicting things that would happenin the future. Wells foresaw aerial and chemical warefare, pollution of the environment,machines of war, genetic engineering, exhaustion of the Earths resources, and theBibliography:
