Grant Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a science writer, author and novelist; an able upholder of the evolution doctrine and an expounder of Darwinism. February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The scope of this article is limited to the empirical sciences. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A speculative phylogenetic tree of all living things, based on rRNA gene data, showing the separation of the three domains, bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. ... Charles Darwin Darwinism is a term for the underlying theory in the ideas of Charles Darwin, particularly concerning evolution and natural selection. ...

Born Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen near Kingston, Ontario, Canada, the son of an emigrant Anglo-Scottish Protestant minister, he studied in the United Kingdom and France and in his mid twenties became a professor at Queen's College in Jamaica. Kingston, Ontario, is a historic city in Ontario, Canada, located in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... In Scotland the term Anglo-Scot, sometimes shortened to Anglo, is used to refer to people born in, brought-up in, or long-term resident in England who have significant Scottish ancestry. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...

Despite his religious father, Allen became an agnostic and a socialist. After leaving his professorship, in 1876 he returned to the UK, where he turned his talents to writing, gaining a reputation for his essays on science and for literary works. The term agnosticism and the related agnostic were coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869. ... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ...

His first books were on scientific subjects, and include Physiological Æsthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees. He was first influenced by associationist psychology as it was expounded by Alexander Bain and Herbert Spencer. Spencer was the most important individual in the transition from associationist psychology to Darwinian functionalism. In Allen's many articles on flowers and perception in insects, Darwinian arguments replaced the old Spencerian terms. On a personal level, a long friendship that started when Allen met Spencer on his return from Jamaica, also grew uneasy over the years. Allen wrote a critical and revealing biographical article on Spencer that was published after Spencer was dead. Alexander Bain A different Alexander Bain invented the electric clock, facsimile machine and earth battery. ... Herbert Spencer. ...

After assisting Sir W.W. Hunter in his Gazeteer of India in the early 80s, Allen turned his attention to fiction, and between 1884 and 1899 produced about 30 novels In 1895, his scandalous book titled The Woman Who Did, promulgating certain startling views on marriage and kindred questions, became a bestseller. The book told the story of an independent woman who has a child out of wedlock. The Woman Who Did (1895) is a novel by Grant Allen about a young, self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is fully prepared to suffer the consequences of her actions. ...

Another work, The Evolution of the Idea of God, propounding a theory of religion on heterodox lines, has the disadvantage of endeavoring to explain everything by one theory. This "ghost theory" was often seen as a derivative of Herbert Spencer's theory. However, it was well known and brief references to it can be found in a review by Marcel Mauss, Durkheim's nephew, in the articles of William James and in the works of Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (IPA: []) (May 6, 1856–September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ...

He was also a pioneer in Canadian science fiction, with the 1895 time travel novel The British Barbarians. This book, published about the same time as H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine", also described time travel, although the plot is quite different. H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ...

Many histories of detective fiction also mention Allen as an innovator. His gentleman rogue, the illustrious Colonel Clay, is seen as a forerunner to later characters. In fact, Allen's character bear strong resemblance to Maurice Leblanc's French works about Arsene Lupin, published many years later. Maurice Leblanc Maurice Leblanc Maurice-marie-émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyles creation Sherlock... Ars ne Lupin is a fictional gentleman-thief character appearing in a series of novels by Maurice Leblanc. ...

Allen was married twice and had one son. He died at his home on Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England on October 25, 1899. His unfinished novel "Hilda Wade" was completed, at his request, by his friend Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. this is a fucking shit area their are all these prostitutes in the area and they charge £15 per hour for intercourse with condom and £20 without ... Haslemere is a town in southern England, with a population of nearly 14,000. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ... Sherlock Holmes as imagined by the seminal Holmesian artist, Sidney Edward Paget, in The Strand magazine. ...

An annual festival celebrating Canadian mystery fiction is held annually on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Allen's birthplace. Wolfe Island may refer to: in Canada, Wolfe Island in Lake Ontario Wolfe Island in the Atlantic off Nova Scotia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Partial bibliography

• Philistia - (1884)
• Babylon - (1885)
• The Devil's Die - (1888)
• The White Man's Foot - (1888)
• The Great Taboo - (1891)
• The British Barbarians - (1895)
• The Woman Who Did - (1895)
• An African Millionaire - (1897)
• The Evolution of the Idea of God - (1897)
• Miss Cayley's Adventures - (1899)
• Hilda Wade - (1900)
• Colour Sense
• Evolutionist at Large
• Colin Clout's Calendar
• Story of the Plants
• In All Shades
• Paris

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References

• This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
• Barbara Arnett Melchiori, Grant Allen: The Downward Path which Leads to Fiction (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2000), ISBN 88-8319-526-4
• Peter Morton, "The Busiest Man in England" : Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900" London: Palgrave, 2005.
• Edward Clodd, "Grant Allen: A Memoir"
• Grant Allen, "My First Book. With an Introduction by Jerome K. Jerome." London Chatto & Windus, 1894

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