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Allen, Grant, 1848-1899

LC control no.n 50038383
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR4004.A2
Personal name headingAllen, Grant, 1848-1899
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Variant(s)Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie, 1848-1899
עלען, גרענט, 1848־1899
See alsoFor works of this author entered under other names, search also under Rayner, Olive Pratt, 1848-1899, Power, Cecil, 1848-1899. Warborough, Martin Leach,1848-1899
Rayner, Olive Pratt, 1848-1899
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Power, Cecil, 1848-1899
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Warborough, Martin Leach, 1848-1899
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Associated countryGreat Britain Jamaica Canada
Associated placeOxford (England) Spanish Town (Jamaica)
Birth date1848-02-24
1848-02-24
Death date1899-10-28
1899-10-25
Place of birthKingston (Ont.)
Place of deathHindhead (England)
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Pseudonyms not found on published works: J. Arbuthnot Wilson
Found innuc90-47796: His Philistia [MI] c1884 (hdg. on GmC rept.: Allen, Grant, 1848-1899; usage: Cecil Power)
nuc90-11302: His The type-writer girl [MI] 1897 (hdg. on NN rept.: Allen, Grant, 1848-1899; usage: Olive Pratt Rayner)
LC data base, 09-06-90 (hdg.: Allen, Grant, 1848-1899; usage: Grant Allen)
Website for Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, May 17, 2001 (www.flinders.edu.au) (on-line Grant Allen Annotated Bibliography by Peter Morton: Grant Allen used four different pseudonyms: J. Arbuthnot Wilson, Cecil Power, Olive Pratt Rayner, Martin Leach Warborough)
Literature Resource Center website, 21 Dec. 2015: source: British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I. Ed. Darren Harris-Fain. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 178. Detroit: Gale, 1997 (Grant Allen; a.k.a. Cecil Power, Olive Pratt Rayner, Martin Leach Warborough; Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was born on 24 February 1848 at Alwington, near Kingston, Ontario; graduated from Meron College, Oxford University in 1871; taught for three years at in Spanish Town, Jamaica; he returned to England and began to try to make a living from his writing, first as a popularizer of evolutionary science, later on a variety of other subjects; he died on 28 October 1899; though his professional writing career was not much more than twenty years long, Grant Allen was enormously productive; he published more than thirty novels, half a dozen volumes of short stories, a volume of poetry, and well over thirty non-fiction books on subjects as varied as Anglo-Saxon Britain, Charles Darwin and evolutionary theory, aesthetics, anthropology, botany, socialism, the Woman Question, and the British countryside, as well as a series of popular historical guidebooks to European cities; lists works)
The Literature Network website, 21 Dec. 2015 (Grant Allen (1848-1899), Canadian anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet; Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was born on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ontario, on 24 February, 1848; he died at his home in Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England on October 25, 1899)
Associated languageeng