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The Critic
When Wells was 20 and a student at the Normal School of Science he and his friends started a magazine called the Science School Journal which they used for literature and socialist purposes. The first printing of the Science School Journal was in December of 1886. Wells contributed articles to the magazine such as his first version of The Time Machine, The Chronic Argonauts. Some of the articles that Wells wrote for the magazine where signed with a pseudonym such as "Walker Glockenhammer" or "Septimus Browne." After the magazine was started H. G.'s professor at the time noticed that he was beginning to grow inattentive in class so ordered him to give up his editorial in the magazine.
The editor of the Pall Mall Gazette asked Wells to write book review for the periodical. H. G.'s first paycheck for his book reviews was £ 14.13s. Later, the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette asked Wells to be the theater critic. Wells took both jobs gladly, savoring the extra money that they brought to him.
Copyright 2000 Roman Allemann