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Grant Allen ( February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a scientific writer and novelist.Born Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, the son of an English emigrant Protestant minister. He studied in England and France and in his mid twenties became a professor at Queens College in Jamaica.
Despite his religious father, Allen became an agnostic and a socialist. After leaving his professorship, in 1876 he returned to England where he turned his talents to writing, gaining a reputation for his essays on science and for literary works.
His first books were on scientific subjects, and include Physiological Æsthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees. After assisting Sir W.W. Hunter in his Gazeteer of India, he turned his attention to fiction, and between 1884 and 1899 produced about 30 novels
In 1895, his scandalous book titled The Woman Who Did became a bestseller. The book told the story of an independent woman who has a child out of wedlock.
Grant Allen died at his home on HindheadHindhead is a village on the A3 road in Surrey, about 10 miles south-west of Guildford. It has been blighted for years by heavy traffic, and is now the only place on the A3 route that has not been bypassed. There are plans afoot to bypass Hindhead on the, HaslemereHaslemere is a town in Surrey, England, with a population of nearly 14,000. It is situated just east of the A3 road and just north of a branch of the River Wey, approximately fifteen kilometres south west of Guildford. The town was one of the rotten borou, SurreyThis is about Surrey, England. There are also articles about other uses of the name Surrey. Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties'. It is divided into a number of districts Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Rei, England on October 25, 1899.
1 Partial bibliography
- Philistia - (1884)
- The Devil's Die - (1888)
- The White Man's Foot - (1888)
- The Great Taboo - (1891)
- The British Barbarians - (1895)
- The Woman Who Did - (1895)
- The Evolution of the Idea of God - (1897)
2 Reference
- Barbara Arnett Melchiori , Grant Allen: The Downward Path which Leads to Fiction (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2000), BooksEnthsiast.com
3 External link
- eTexts of Allen's works, at Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg PG was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. The texts provided are mostly in the pub
- The Grant Allen Website
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