This booklet is a serious biography of supply Allen, (1848-1899), the 1st for a century, according to the entire surviving fundamental assets. Born in Kingston, Ontario, right into a cultured and prosperous relations, Allen was once trained in France and England. A mysterious marriage whereas he used to be an Oxford undergraduate wrecked his educational occupation and radicalized his perspectives on sexual and marital questions, as did a three-year instructing stint in Jamaica. regardless of his lifelong sick future health and brief existence, Allen used to be a author of awesome productiveness and variety. approximately part - greater than 30 books and lots of enormous quantities of articles - displays pursuits which ran from Darwinian biology to cultural shuttle publications. His prosperity, even if, used to be underpinned via fiction; greater than 30 novels, together with the lady Who Did , which has attracted a lot contemporary recognition from feminist critics and historians. the higher finish of Grub highway makes use of Allen's occupation to ascertain the position and standing of the freelance author/journalist within the late-Victorian interval. Allen's profession delineates what it took to achieve this notoriously difficult occupation.
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