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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 691 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI ALLEN (1848–1899)  ,
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English author, son of a clergyman of Irish descent, was born at Kingston, Ontario,
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Canada, on the 24th of
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February 1848 . He was educated partly in
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America and France, and in England at King
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Edward's School,
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Birmingham, and afterwards at Merton, Oxford . He was for a few years a schoolmaster in
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Jamaica, but then made his home in England, where he became prominent as a writer . He died at his house on Hindhead,
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Haslemere, on the 24th of
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October 1899 . Grant Allen was a voluminous author . He was full of interesting scientific knowledge and had a gift for expression both in biological exposition and in fiction, His more purely scientific books (such as Physiological
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Aesthetics, 1877; The Evolutionist at Large, 1881; The
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Evolution of the Idea of
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God, 1897) contain much
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original
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matter, popularly expressed, and he was a cultured exponent of the evolutionary idea in various aspects of biology and anthropology . He first attracted attention as a novelist with a sensational story, The Devil's Die (1888), though this was by no means his first attempt at fiction; and The Woman who Did (1895), which had a succes de scandale on account of its treatment of the sexual problem, had for the moment a number of cheap imitators . Other volumes flowed from his pen, and his name became well known in contemporary literature . But his reputation was essentially contemporary and characteristic of the vogue
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peculiar to the journalistic type .

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