LC control no. | n 50038383 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PR4004.A2 |
Personal name heading | Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 |
Variant(s) | Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie, 1848-1899 עלען, גרענט, 1848־1899 |
See also | For 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 Power, Cecil, 1848-1899 Warborough, Martin Leach, 1848-1899 |
Associated country | Great Britain Jamaica Canada |
Associated place | Oxford (England) Spanish Town (Jamaica) |
Birth date | 1848-02-24 1848-02-24 |
Death date | 1899-10-28 1899-10-25 |
Place of birth | Kingston (Ont.) |
Place of death | Hindhead (England) |
Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. Pseudonyms not found on published works: J. Arbuthnot Wilson |
Found in | nuc90-47796: 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 language | eng |