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H.G. Wells had an apprenticeship as a draper at Hyde's, the Southsea Drapery Emporium, in Southsea,  between 1880 and 1883.

Herbert George Wells, the English author was born on September 21st, 1866 in Bromley, Kent, more commonly known as H.G. Wells, and regarded as one of the pioneers of science fiction. Early in his life in 1874 Wells's was bedridden with a broken leg following an accident, to pass the time he began reading books from the library. It is thought that these books of other worlds, and other lives stimulated his desire to write. His father Joseph Herbert Wells, a shopkeeper and a professional cricket player for the Kent county team fractured his thigh in 1877. This put an end to Joseph's career as a cricketer, and his earnings as a shopkeeper were not enough to support his family. As a result of this the family sought to place their boys as apprentices to various occupations. Between 1880 and 1883, H.G. Wells had an apprenticeship as a draper at Hyde's, the Southsea Drapery Emporium, in Southsea, Hampshire. He taught at Midhurst, Hampshire in 1883, then in London where he married his cousin Isabel in 1891. As a novelist Wells made his debut in 1895 with the Time Machine. H.G. Wells has a crater named after him on the far side of the Moon.

 

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