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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.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Busiest Man in England
• Subtitle: Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900
• Author: Peter Morton
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 251
• EAN: 9781403966261
• ISBN: 1403966265
• ID: 04776897
• Publisher: Palgrave USA
• Weight: 552 g
• Dimensions: 243 × 158 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. May 2005

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