Who is hg wells

Wells was impressed by the young Menen and deliberately risked a confrontation with the film producer Alexander Korda , who had just acquired the film rights for the novel. In the letter Wells highlighted the ill-treatment of Nehru and called for Indian self-determination.

Wells was particularly interested in the treatment of Nehru and sent a number of letters to the India Office in However their response was less than satisfactory. Wells was privately engaged in conversations with Lord Amery, Secretary of State for India, about Nehru, worried about his treatment as a political prisoner. This had led Bhicoo Batlivala to pursue Wells on behalf of Menon. She persuaded Wells to attend a private India League meeting to discuss the position of India and the Atlantic Charta, held at the Savoy Hotel on 23 October , after he had declined invitations to speak at one of the organization's public meetings.

Wells died in London on 13 August Forster , C. Sen on Tagore at Caxton Hall on 29 May Parrinder, Patrick ed. Making Britain Discover how South Asians shaped the nation, In later life, the emphasis of his political writing turned more towards the rights of the individual, and his book The Rights of Man: Or What Are We Fighting For? Nonetheless, the influence of his books and pamphlets of science fiction, novels, politics, utopia, history, biography and autobiography has been enormous throughout the twentieth century and beyond.

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He rebelled against this fate in After a year of teaching at a private school, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science at South Kensington in , where he studied under the biologist T. Wells left Kensington without a degree in , returning to teaching in private schools for three years. He received a degree in science from the University of London in Wells began teaching at a correspondence college in London in after his marriage to his cousin Isabel.

The marriage was both difficult and brief. After three years of writing on educational topics, he published his first novel, The Time Machine. Divorcing his first wife, Wells remarried in and abandoned teaching.

Wells's involvement with socialism and radicalism had begun in and continued for the remainder of his life. Love and Mr. Lewisham , Wells's first nonscience fiction novel, concerned the relationship of men and women and introduced sex as an integral part of that relationship. Polly These novels are considered his greatest achievement.

As his novels indicate, Wells was hostile to the Victorian social and moral orders. His criticism became explicit as his involvement with radical causes grew. He joined the Fabian Society, a socialist group that included George Bernard Shaw and Sydney Webb, in ; after an unsuccessful attempt four years later to turn Fabianism to mass propaganda and political action, Wells resigned.