Du Bois implied that Wells had chosen not to be included.

However, in her autobiography, Wells complains that Du Bois deliberately excluded her from the list.

Just as Sadler's Wells seemed at its lowest ebb, an unexpected champion arrived in the shape of the actor-manager Samuel Phelps.

They seemed not to realize that, in re-living the entire life of Mankind as a single imaginative experience, Mr. Wells was achieving something which they themselves would hardly have dared to attempt ...

Moore commented that it seemed fitting for Griffin to join the Martians as both hailed from novels by H. G. Wells.

It seemed like he was, as Mr. Wells Wells, Libby ’ s attorney put it, he was the fall guy.

Adaptations of H. G. Wells stories continued to be made, including films of The Time Machine and First Men in the Moon, but these seemed somewhat like a continuation of the fifties sci-fi's.

Russell Patterson and Carolyn Wells ' New Adventures of Flossy Frills was a continuing strip series seen on Sunday magazine covers.

Russell Patterson and Carolyn Wells ' New Adventures of Flossy Frills ( January 26, 1941 ), an example of comic strips on Sunday magazine s.

It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, north-west of Wells.

A First Somerset and Avon bus picks up passengers at the Market cross on service 126 from Weston-super-Mare to Wells, the principal bus service through Cheddar

Led by the strong play of Derrek Lee, Ted Lilly and rookie pitcher Randy Wells, the club started well, but fell on hard times as injuries took their toll.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, in the county of Kent, on 21 September 1866.

The teaching was erratic, the curriculum mostly focused, Wells later said, on producing copperplate handwriting and doing the sort of sums useful to tradesmen.

These picshuas have been the topic of study by Wells scholars for many years, and recently a book was published on the subject.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.

Wells died of unspecified causes on 13 August 1946 at his home at 13 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, London, aged 79.

Wells has had a great impact on history.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

Wells, on the other hand, has stated that in view or Origen's statements these variations from the Christian accounts may be signs of interpolation in the James passage.

Russell, Wells, and Rushton ( 1985 ) reanalyzed several previous studies on similarities between spouses and concluded there is higher similarity on the more heritable characteristics.

* Wells Tower's short story, " Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned ," is centred around a Viking raid on Lindisfarne.

The first boxing contest held at the Arms Park was on 24 January 1914, when Bombadier Billy Wells beat Gaston Pigot by a knockout in the first round of a 20 round contest.

Robb Wells, the actor who plays Ricky on the Showcase hit comedy Trailer Park Boys hails from Moncton, along with Julie Doiron, an indie rock musician and Holly Dignard the actress who plays Nicole Miller on the CTV series " Whistler ".

Scarlet Traces is intended as a sequel to H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds and centres on a counter-invasion of Mars, beginning about 1908 and continuing over the next three decades.

An almost literal use of the phrase appears in popular fiction within H. G. Wells ' 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, where the protagonist finds a manuscript written in shorthand that provides a key to understanding additional scattered material that is sketched out in both longhand and on typewriter.

* Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

* Gilbert Osofsky, Puttin ' on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup ( New York: Harper and Row, 1969 )

" The Country of the Blind ", a short story by H. G. Wells, is one of the most well-known stories featuring blind characters.

Wells tells Lois that in truth the people of the future simply considered Lois to be blinded by love, and that this has made her story a compelling one throughout the intervening years.

He appears in the first episode of the 2001 miniseries The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells, rejecting a story from Wells for being too long and too preposterous.

The Tree of Life producer Bill Pohlad and veteran television writer and producer John Wells ( E. R., The West Wing ) have teamed to develop a drama based on Wilson's personal and professional story.

It is now seen as the seminal alien invasion story and Wells is credited with establishing several extraterrestrial themes which were later greatly expanded by science fiction writers in the 20th Century, including first contact and war between planets and their differing species.

It was not widely read, and consequently Wells ' vastly more successful novel is generally credited as the seminal alien invasion story.

Wells had already proposed another outcome for the alien invasion story in The War of the Worlds.

* 1853, William Wells Brown, known as the first African-American novelist, published his Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter, a novel based on the Jefferson-Hemings story.

The 14 story Wells Fargo Building, tallest in the city.

The 10 story Wells Fargo Tower, tallest building in downtown Las Cruces, originally the First National Bank Tower.

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

Wayne explained that the idea was to return to the original album and explore H. G. Wells ' characters in more detail, as well as develop the love story between the story's main character, George Herbert, and his fiancee Carrie.

This is likely to also be a reference to the early SF writer H. G. Wells ' story, " The Country of the Blind " in which a sighted man finds himself in a literal country of the blind, plots to use his advantage to rule them, but fails because his ability is not appreciated by the population.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

Moreover, minority authors were beginning to publish fiction, as in William Wells Brown's Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter, Martin Delany's Blake ; or, The Huts of America and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig as early African American novels, and John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit, which is considered the first Native American novel but which also is an early story about Mexican American issues.

For example, William Irish was the byline in Dime Detective Magazine ( February, 1942 ) on his 1942 story " It Had to Be Murder ", ( source of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window ) and based on H. G. Wells ' short story " Through a Window ".

The hoax was the basis of the 1994 film Princess Caraboo, written by Michael Austin and John Wells, which added some fictional incidents to the true story.

1902 saw the cinematic release of Georges Méliès's film Le Voyage dans la Lune ( A Trip to the Moon ); the time period and the fact that it is based partially on a story by Wells has led to it being labelled as a scientific romance as well.

It was part of an unrealized project to adapt the story using Wells ' original " octopus " concept for the Martians.

* In the H. G. Wells story The War of the Worlds, perhaps the first depiction of an alien invasion in fiction, Earth is simply a neighboring planet of the inhabitants of Mars.

The breakdown of this identification of two points into one is the premise of H. G. Wells story " The Remarkable Case of Davidson ’ s Eyes " ( 1895 ).