ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (18481899)

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ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (18481899) , English author, son of a clergyman of Irish descent, was born at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on the 24th of February 1848. He was educated partly in America and France, and in England at King

Edward

EDWARD

's School,

Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM

, and afterwards at Merton,

Oxford

. He was for a few years a schoolmaster in Jamaica, but then made his

home

in England, where he became prominent as a writer. He died at his

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

on Hindhead,

Haslemere

HASLEMERE

, on the 24th of October 1899. Grant Allen was a voluminous author. He was full of interesting scientific knowledge and had a

gift

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut.
stem
- STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")
gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

for expression both in biological exposition and in fiction, His more purely scientific books (such as Physiological Aesthetics, 1877; The Evolutionist at Large, 1881; The Evolution of the Idea of God, 1897) contain much

original

ORIGINAL

matter, popularly expressed, and he was a cultured exponent of the evolutionary idea in various aspects of biology and anthropology. He first attracted attention as a novelist with a sensational story, The Devil's Die (1888), though this was by no means his first attempt at fiction; and The Woman who Did (1895), which had a succes de scandale on account of its treatment of the sexual problem, had for the moment a number of cheap imitators. Other volumes flowed from his pen, and his name became well known in contemporary literature. But his reputation was essentially contemporary and characteristic of the vogue peculiar to the journalistic type.

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