Grant Allen

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Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (born February 24, 1848 in Alwington near Kingston , Ontario , Canada , † October 25, 1899 in Hindhead , Surrey , UK ) was a Canadian-British writer.

Grant Allen

Life

From 1876 onwards, Allen created a very diverse work. It includes poems, essays, popular science articles, writings on botany and theology as well as novels, including works with a criminalistic influence.

The son of an Irish Protestant clergyman and notable scholar, he is of Irish and French-Canadian descent. He was educated partly in America and partly in France. Having won a scholarship, he studied Classical Languages ​​at Merton College , Oxford . The university career was difficult. On the one hand, he had a sick wife, and on the other, he had very little finances. He graduated in 1871 "with honors".

As a professor of philosophy , he taught ethics, Latin and Greek from 1873 at Queen's College, a newly established educational institution for blacks in Spanish Town , Jamaica . However, due to a lack of students, this was soon dissolved and Allen returned to England in 1876 in order to make a living from writing in the future.

Grant Allen was a friend and neighbor of Arthur Conan Doyle , the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Works

  • Physiological aesthetics (1877)
  • Philistia (1884)
  • Strange Stories (1884)
  • Babylon (1885)
  • Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886)
  • The Devil's Die (1888)
  • The White Man's Foot (1888)
  • The Jaws of Death (1889)
  • The Great Taboo (1891)
  • The British Barbarians (1895)
  • The Desire of the Eyes (1895)
  • The Woman Who Did (1895)
  • An African Millionaire (1897)
  • The Evolution of the Idea of ​​God (1897)
  • Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899)
    • Transl. Zosa Höcker: Miss Cayleys' adventure. Novel. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1925
  • Twelve Tales: With a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and a Intermezzo (1899)
  • Hilda Wade (1900)
  • The Backslider (1901)
  • Color Sense
  • Evolutionist at Large
  • Colin Clout's Calendar
  • Story of the Plants
  • In All Shades
  • Paris

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personal data
SURNAME Allen, Grant
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blairfindie Allen, Charles Grant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Alwington near Kingston , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1899
Place of death Hindhead , Surrey , UK