A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848 - 99) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen was a prolific novelist, essayist, and man of letters, who is best remembered today for his Woman Who Did (1895), which gained fame and notoriety almost overnight through its exploration of female independence and sexuality outside marriage, precipitating rabid denunciations of the 'new woman'....
A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848 - 99) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of con...
