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"Remembered today mainly for his best-selling 'sex-problem' novel The Woman Who Did, Grant Allen was the most versatile man of letters in late Victorian London, and one of the most controversial. An outspoken atheist, socialist, evolutionist, sexual radical, and polymath, he was one of the chief shapers of the iconoclastic mentality of the 1890s.
For reasons which have long been mysterious, Allen, from a wealthy Canadian family, was dependent upon the new mass market for popular fiction to keep the wolf from the door. Peter Morton, having combed through dusty archives with the energy of a Sherlock Holmes, has emerged, not only with a solution to the mystery, but also with an unsurpassed knowledge of Grant Allen and his times. His beautifully-written biography - the first for more than a century - of this remarkable and unjustly neglected figure throws a brilliant new light on the entire literary-cultural scene of late nineteenth-century England."-Nicholas Ruddick, University of Regina
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Book Title: The Busiest Man in England
Book Subtitle: Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900
Authors: Peter Morton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980991
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6626-1Published: 11 May 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52939-1Published: 11 May 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8099-1Published: 15 April 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 251
Topics: Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature