Allen, Grant. Mr. Grant AllenÕs New Story ÒMichaelÕs Crag.Ó With three-hundred and fifty marginal illustrations in silhouette by Francis Carruthers Gould and Alec Carruthers Gould. London: Leadenhall Press, 1893
Original gray cloth with front cover and spine stamped in black., xi, [1], 194, [2], [16, ads] pp. Text illustrations.
Spine faded. Very good., Charles Grant Allen (1848-1899) was born in Alwington, near Kingston, in Canada. He received his B.A. from Merton College, Oxford, and became professor of mental and moral philosophy in college at Spanish Town, Jamaica, for the education of Negroes (1873-6). He returned to England in 1876 and adopted literature as his profession. He wrote a number of books on popular science, then turned to novel writing, producing some thirty works of fiction. Amongst them is Tendenz-Roman (1895), a novel protesting the subjection of women; and An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay, Òthe first important rogue in short crime fiction who is the hero, not a subsidiary character, villain or anti-heroÓ (Steinbrunner and Penzler, Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection). His last novel, Hilda Wade, which was left unfinished at his death, was completed by A. Conan Doyle., NCBEL III, 1033 (giving the title as MichaelÕs Cray).
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