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The Busiest Man in England

P Morton

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  • 251 sidor
  • 2005
This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources. Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family, Allen was educated in France and England. 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. Despite his lifelong ill health and short life, Allen was a writer of extraordinary productivity and range. About half - more than 30 books and many hundreds of articles - reflects interests which ran from Darwinian biology to cultural travel guides. His prosperity, however, was underpinned by fiction; more than 30 novels, including The Woman Who Did , which has attracted much recent attention from feminist critics and historians. The Better End of Grub Street uses Allen's career to examine the role and status of the freelance author/journalist in the late-Victorian period. Allen's career delineates what it took to succeed in this notoriously tough profession.
  • Författare: P Morton
  • Illustratör: 251 p XVIII
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781349529391
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 251
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2005-05-01
  • Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan