About this book Introduction This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen,the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources. A mysterious marriage while he was an Oxford undergraduate wrecked his academic career and radicalized his views on sexual and marital questions, as did a three-year teaching stint in Jamaica.
Setting out the Stall — Jamaica — Retailing The Leicestershire Who Did. Back Matter Pages Skip to main content Skip to table of contents.
The Stock in Trade: Writing Science. Last Orders — A mysterious marriage while he was an Oxford undergraduate wrecked his academic career and radicalized his views on sexual and marital questions, as did a three-year teaching stint in Jamaica.
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About half - more than 30 books and many hundreds of articles - reflects interests which ran from Darwinian biology to cultural travel guides. Canada and Oxford — Back Matter Pages Pages Allen's career delineates what it took to succeed in this notoriously tough profession.
His prosperity, however, was underpinned by fiction; more than 30 novels, including The Woman Who Didwhich has attracted much recent attention from feminist critics and historians. Leicestershire to main content Skip to table of contents.
Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family, Allen was educated in France and England. The Stock in Trade: Light Fiction. Jamaica — Back Matter Pages