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The Busiest Man in England : Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900, Paperback / softback Book

The Busiest Man in England : Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 Paperback / softback

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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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