1. Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England.
10 Facts About Grant Allen
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Grant Allen was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Grant Allen's mother was a daughter of the fifth Baron de Longueuil.
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Grant Allen was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham and at Merton College in Oxford, both in the United Kingdom.
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Grant Allen wrote a critical and revealing biographical article on Spencer that was published after Spencer's death.
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Hunter with his Gazetteer of India in the early 1880s, Grant Allen turned his attention to fiction, and between 1884 and 1899 produced about 30 novels.
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Grant Allen's theory became well known and brief references to it appear in a review by Marcel Mauss, Durkheim's nephew, in the articles of William James and in the works of Sigmund Freud.
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Grant Allen's nephew, Grant Richards, was a writer and publisher who founded the Grant Richards publishing house.
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Grant Allen encouraged his nephew's interest in books and publishing and helped him obtain his first positions in the book trade.
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Grant Allen died of liver cancer at his home on Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England, on 25 October 1899.