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The Busiest Man in England - Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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The Busiest Man in England - Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the
first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources.
Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family,
Allen was educated in France and England. A mysterious marriage
while he was an Oxford undergraduate wrecked his academic career
and radicalized his views on sexual and marital questions, as did a
three-year teaching stint in Jamaica. Despite his lifelong ill
health and short life, Allen was a writer of extraordinary
productivity and range. About half - more than 30 books and many
hundreds of articles - reflects interests which ran from Darwinian
biology to cultural travel guides. His prosperity, however, was
underpinned by fiction; more than 30 novels, including The Woman
Who Did , which has attracted much recent attention from feminist
critics and historians. The Better End of Grub Street uses Allen's
career to examine the role and status of the freelance
author/journalist in the late-Victorian period. Allen's career
delineates what it took to succeed in this notoriously tough
profession.
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