H.G.Wells in Folkestone 1899

Professor Gibberne, as many people know, is my neighbour in Folkestone. Unless my memory plays me a trick, his portrait at various ages has already appeared in The Strand Magazine—I think late in 1899; but I am unable to look it up because I have lent that volume to some one who has never sent it back. The reader may, perhaps, recall the high forehead and the singularly long black eyebrows that give such a Mephistophelian touch to his face. He occupies one of those pleasant little detached houses in the mixed style that make the western end of the Upper Sandgate Road so interesting.

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[granddad2002]

Interesting that a landmark exists that traces 10 years of HG's works. What a great novelist he was... though I find his socialist utopia very naive; Men of his caliber were very visionary if impractical. In an age where England was soon to cease being an empire, I will concede his voice and ideas were a barometer of the change that did come. Hopefully, we all can be better humans in the days ahead.