H. G. Wells he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in "Tono-Bungay" (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934. Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 162 High Street in Bromley, Kent, on 21 September 1866. Called "Bertie" in the family, he was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells (a former domestic gardener, and at the time a shopkeeper and professional cricketer) and his wife, Sarah Neal (a former domestic
The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper motivation in fiction, mentions of geothermal energy, and wider coverage of scientific news, while the unsuccessful ones include simplified spelling of English, a 13-month reformed calendar, the extinction of gorillas, and hints at some form of world government. An adaptation of the story formed part of the first episode of the four-hour miniseries "The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells" released in 2001 by the Hallmark Channel, with Arthur Brownlow played by Mark Lewis Jones. The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper "The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in