03758nam 22007215 450 991096537430332120240508223603.01-281-36460-697866113646011-4039-8099-310.1057/9781403980991(CKB)1000000000342842(EBL)307545(OCoLC)312478889(SSID)ssj0000116080(PQKBManifestationID)11145074(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116080(PQKBWorkID)10026818(PQKB)10145900(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8099-1(Au-PeEL)EBL307545(CaPaEBR)ebr10135576(CaONFJC)MIL136460(Perlego)3497478(MiAaPQ)EBC307545(EXLCZ)99100000000034284220151128d2005 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Busiest Man in England Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 /by P. Morton1st ed. 2005.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2005.1 online resource (270 pages)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-52939-7 1-4039-6626-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : "the most hateful of professions?" -- 1. Canada and Oxford (1848-1873) -- 2. Jamaica (1873-1876) -- 3. Setting out the stall (1876-1880) -- 4. "A pedlar crying stuff" : selling the wares (1880-1889) -- 5. The stock in trade : writing science -- 6. The stock in trade : light fiction -- 7. The prosperous tradesman (1890-1895) -- 8. Dealing with the "dissenting grocer" -- 9. Retailing The woman who did -- 10. Last orders (1896-1899) -- Conclusion : "we of the proletariat..."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.FictionLiterature, Modern19th centuryEuropean literatureFiction LiteratureNineteenth-Century LiteratureEuropean LiteratureFiction.Literature, ModernEuropean literature.Fiction Literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.European Literature.821/.914Morton Peter1946 Apr. 10-1793973MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965374303321The Busiest Man in England4334469UNINA