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See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
ALLEN, See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
GRANT See also:CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899) , See also:English author, son of a clergyman of Irish descent, was See also:born at See also:Kingston, See also:Ontario, See also:Canada, on the 24th of See also:February 1848. He was educated partly in See also:America and See also:France, and in See also:England at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Edward's School, See also:Birmingham, and afterwards at Merton, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. He was for a few years a schoolmaster in See also:Jamaica, but then made his See also:home in England, where he became prominent as a writer. He died at his See also:house on Hindhead, See also:Haslemere, on the 24th of See also:October 1899. Grant Allen was a voluminous author. He was full of interesting scientific knowledge and had a See also:gift for expression both in biological exposition and in fiction, His more purely scientific books (such as Physiological See also:Aesthetics, 1877; The Evolutionist at Large, 1881; The See also:Evolution of the See also:Idea of See also:God, 1897) contain much See also:original See also:matter, popularly expressed, and he was a cultured exponent of the evolutionary idea in various aspects of See also:biology and See also:anthropology. He first attracted See also:attention as a novelist with a sensational See also:story, The See also:Devil's See also:Die (1888), though this was by no means his first See also:attempt at fiction; and The Woman who Did (1895), which had a succes de scandale on See also:account of its treatment of the sexual problem, had for the moment a number of cheap imitators. Other volumes flowed from his See also:pen, and his name became well known in contemporary literature. But his reputation was essentially contemporary and characteristic of the See also:vogue See also:peculiar to the journalistic type.
End of Article: ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
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