"Who, born in Reading in 1903, called his autobiography ""Life Among Antiques""?"
Arthur Negus Arthur Negus Arthur George Negus, OBE (29 March 1903 – 5 April 1985) was a British television personality and antiques expert, specialising in furniture. Negus was born in Reading, Berkshire, England, to Amy Julia Worsley and father Arthur George Negus Sr, a cabinet maker. His family has had a long history in the antiques business. Negus was educated at Reading School and began running the family business when he was 17, following the death of his father. During World War II he was an air-raid warden. He later joined the company of Bruton, Knowles & Co., auctioneers of fine antiques
Experiment in Autobiography his job. Later, back in London, a dramatic relapse forced him to abandon teaching altogether in 1893, and to devote himself instead to writing. "Experiment in Autobiography" describes in some detail Wells's early sexual development, his first marriage to his cousin Isabel Mary Wells, and the beginning of his second marriage to Amy Catherine Robbins (whom Wells and others called "Jane"), but omits discussion of the intimate life of his later years. His children are mentioned only in passing. The work contains an abundant selection of the humorous sketches Wells called "picshuas" and produced mostly to amuse his second wife