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Article: H. G. Wells: a political life.
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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HG. Wells was born into a struggling lower-middle-class family on September 21, 1866 at Atlas House, High Street, in Bromley, Kent. He had two brothers, Frank (1857-1933) and Fred (1862-1954), and a sister, Fanny (1855-1864), who died before he was born. His father, Joseph Wells (1828-1910), was a shopkeeper and former gardener, who moved to Bromley in 1855 to sell china and cricket equipment, and supplemented his income by coaching local cricketers and bowling for Kent County Cricket Club. Wells's mother, Sarah Wells (nee Neal) (1822-1905), had been a lady's maid before her marriage to Joseph in 1853 and shared the shopkeeping duties on their move to Bromley. When Wells ...