ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850 )

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ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850 ) , American novelist, was born near Lexington, Kentucky, on the 21st of December 185o. He graduated at Kentucky University, Lexington, in 1872, taught at Fort

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, Kentucky, at Richmond and at Lexington, Missouri, and from 1877 to 1879 at the

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of Kentucky University, where he was principal and taught modern languages; in 188o he was professor of Latin and English at Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia; and then became head of a private school at Lexington, Kentucky. Subsequently he gave up teaching, went to New

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City, where he secured commissions for sketches of the " Blue Grass " region, and thereafter devoted himself to literature. His Choir Invisible, coming after other successful stories, made his name well known in England as well as America. His published works include: With

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(1891), The Blue Grass Region (1892), John Gray (1893), A Kentucky Cardinal (1894), Aftermath (1895), A Summer in Arcady (1896), The Choir Invisible (1897), The Reign of Law (190o), TheMettle of thePasture (1903) ,and TheBride of theMistletoe (1909.)

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