H. G. Wells was born in 1866, the son of a British shopkeeper whose business failed, forcing the young Wells to be apprenticed to a draper. By 1883, he had become a teacher and pupil at Midhurst Grammar School, and later obtained a scholarship to LondonΓÇÖs Normal School of Science, where he studied biology under T. H. Huxley, the vocal evolutionist. Wells resumed teaching and began publishing textbooks, scientific articles and short stories in the early 1890ΓÇÖs. These early works focused primarily upon scientific humanism and the possibility of social reform. Taking off from his studies of evolution, Wells produced his first major piece of
