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Grant Allen (1848-99) was born in Ontario, Canada, the son of a clergyman in the Irish Church. The family later moved to Connecticut, where Allen was taught by a tutor from Yale. He graduated from Merton College, Oxford in 1871. In 1873 he took up a chair in Philosophy at a newly founded government college in Jamaica. He returned to London in 1876 to earn his living by writing. His earliest work was scientific, but in 1884 he published a volume of short stories under the pseudonym J. Arbuthnot Wilson, and as Cecil Power, a novel Philistia. Thereafter he published prolifically in several areas and genres; scientific and sociological: Charles Darwin (1885), Force and Energy; A Theory of Dynamics (1888), Falling in Love, with Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science (1889), The Evolution of the Idea of GW(1897); travel guides: Grant Allen\'s Historical Guides (12 volumes including Florence, Venice, and The Cities of Belgium), The European Tour; A Handbook for Americans and Colonists; novels: Babylon (1885), For Maimie\'s Sake; A Tale of Love and Dynamite (1886), This Mortal Coil and The Devil\'s Die (1888), The Tents ofShem (1889), Dumaresq\'s Daughter and What\'s Bred in the Bone (1891), The Scallywag (1893), The Woman Who Did and The British Barbarians (1895), A Splendid Sin (1896), The Typewriter Girl (as Olive Pratt Rayner) 1897, Miss Cay ley\'s Adventures (1899), Hilda Wade, Hospital Nurse (1900): verse; The Lower Slopes (1894). Many more titles could be listed. From 1881 until his death, Allen lived in Dorking, Surrey, and, for he suffered from chronic bronchitis, spent the winters in the south of France. He was twice married, and had one son.


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