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Science writer, author and novelist; known as Grant Allen
This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "G. A."
This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "G. A."
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen
Works
Non-fiction
- Physiological Aesthetics (1877) (external scan)
- The Colour-Sense (1879) (external scan)
- Vignettes from Nature (1881) (external scan)
- The Evolutionist at Large (1881) (external scan)
- The Colours of Flowers as Illustrated in the British Flora (1882) (external scan)
- Colin Clout's Calendar (1883) (external scan)
- Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1883) (external scan)
- Biographies of Working Men (1884) (external scan)
- Anglo-Saxon Britain (1884) (external scan)
- Common Sense Science (1886) (external scan)
- A Half-Century of Science (1888) (external scan)
- Force and Energy (1888) (external scan)
- Charles Darwin (1885) (external scan)
- The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle (1885) (external scan)
- Falling in Love: With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science (1889) (start transcription)
- Science in Arcady (1892) (external scan)
- The Attis of Caius Valerius Catullus, with Dissertations on the Myth of Attis, on the Origin of Tree-Worship, and on the Gallambic Metre (1892) (external scan)
- Tidal Thames (1892) (external scan)
- The Lower Slopes; Reminiscences of Excursions Round the Base of Helicon (1894) (external scan)
- Post-Prandial Philosophy (1894) (external scan)
- In Memoriam: George Paul Macdonell (1895) (external scan)
- The Story of the Plants (1895) (external scan)
- The Evolution of the Idea of God (1897) (external scan)
- Cities of Belgium (1897) (external scan)
- Florence (1897) (external scan)
- Paris (1897) (external scan)
- Venice (1898) (external scan)
- Rosalba, the Story of Her Development (1899) (external scan)
- Flashlights on Nature; (1899) (external scan)
- The European Tour (1899) (external scan)
- The Natural History of Selborne (1900) (external scan)
- County and Town in England, Together with Some Annals of Churnside (1901) (external scan)
- In Nature's Workshop (1901) (external scan)
- Evolution in Italian Art (1908) (external scan)
- The Hand of God (1909) (external scan)
- The Plants (1909) (external scan)
- Cities of Northern Italy with George Charles Williamson (1858-1942, 1912) (external scan)
Fiction
- An African Millionaire (1897) (transcription project)
- An Army Doctor's Romance (1893) (external scan)
- At Market Value (1894) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
- Babylon (1885) (external scan)
- The Beckoning Hand (external scan)
- Biographies of Working Men
- Blood Royal (1893) (external scan)
- A Bride from the Desert (1896) (external scan)
- The British Barbarians (1895) (external scan)
- The Desire of the Eyes (1895) (external scan)
- The Devil's Die (1888) (external scan)
- The Duchess of Powysland (1892) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
- Dumaresq's Daughter (1891) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
- The Great Taboo (1891) (external scan)
- Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose (1900) (external scan)
- In all Shades (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
- Ivan Greet's Masterpiece, etc. (1893) (external scan)
- The Jaws of Death (1896) (external scan)
- Kalee's Shrine with May Cotes (1886) (external scan)
- Linnet (1899) (external scan)
- For Maimie's Sake (1886) (external scan)
- Michael's Crag (1893) (external scan)
- Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899) (external scan)
- Moorland Idylls (1896) (external scan)
- Philistia (1884) (external scan)
- Recalled to Life (1891) (external scan)
- Sir Theodore's Guest (1902) (external scan)
- A Splendid Sin (1899) (external scan)
- The Tents of Shem (1889) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
- Tom, Unlimited: a Story for Children (1897) (external scan)
- Twelve Tales (1899) (external scan)
- The Type-writer Girl (1897) (external scan)
- Wednesday the Tenth (1890 (external scan)
- What's Bred in the Bone (1891) (external scan)
- The White Man's Foot (1888) (external scan)
- The Woman Who Did (1895) (transcription project)
- Strange Stories (1884) (external scan)
- The Scallywag (1893) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
- A Splendid Sin (1897) (external scan)
- This Mortal Coil (1888) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
- Under Sealed Orders (1895) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
Individual short stories
- "A Deadly Dilemma" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (1) (1891)
- "Jerry Stokes" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (3) (1891)
- "The Prisoner of Assiout" in The Strand Magazine, 2 (8) (1891)
- "The Dynamiter's Sweetheart" in Short Stories (1894)
- "The Pirate of Cliveden Reach" in Windsor Magazine, Vol. 8, (1897-98)
Articles in Dictionary of National Biography
- "Athelstan," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Bridgeman, Orlando," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
Articles in Popular Science Monthly
- "The Origin of Fruits" in Popular Science Monthly, 13 (September 1878)
- "Why Do We Eat our Dinner?" in Popular Science Monthly, 14 (April 1879)
- "A Problem in Human Evolution" in Popular Science Monthly, 15 (June 1879)
- "Pleased with a Feather" in Popular Science Monthly, 15 (July 1879)
- "Geology and History" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (August 1880)
- "Aesthetic Feeling in Birds" in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (September 1880)
- "Aesthetic Evolution in Man" in Popular Science Monthly, 18 (January 1881)
- "Sir Charles Lyell" in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (March 1882)
- "Hyacinth-Bulbs" in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (April 1882)
- "Who was Primitive Man?" in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (November 1882)
- "The Pedigree of Wheat" in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (March 1883)
- "From Buttercups to Monk's-Hood" in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (May 1883)
- "Idiosyncrasy" in Popular Science Monthly, 24 (January 1884)
- "The Ancestry of Birds" in Popular Science Monthly, 24 (March 1884)
- "The Milk in the Cocoa-Nut" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (May 1884)
- "Our Debt to Insects" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (July 1884)
- "Hickory-Nuts and Butternuts" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (August 1884)
- "Queer Flowers" in Popular Science Monthly, 26 (December 1884)
- "Food and Feeding" in Popular Science Monthly, 26 (February 1885)
- "Concerning Clover" in Popular Science Monthly, 28 (November 1885)
- "Fish Out of Water" in Popular Science Monthly, 28 (January 1886)
- "A Thinking Machine" in Popular Science Monthly, 28 (March 1886)
- "Thistles" in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (November 1886)
- "A Mount Washington Sandwort" in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (March 1887)
- "Among the Thousand Islands" in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (July 1887)
- "The Progress of Science from 1836 to 1886" in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (August 1887)
- "American Cinque-Foils" in Popular Science Monthly, 32 (December 1887)
- "Gourds and Bottles" in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (July 1888)
- "A Living Mystery" in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (October 1888)
- "Evolving the Camel" in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (December 1888)
- "Genius and Talent" in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (January 1889)
- "Plain Words on the Woman Question" in Popular Science Monthly, 36 (December 1889)
- "A Desert Fruit" in Popular Science Monthly, 41 (May 1892)
- "Ghost Worship and Tree Worship I" in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (February 1893)
- "Ghost Worship and Tree Worship II" in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (March 1893)
- "Spencer and Darwin" in Popular Science Monthly, 50 (April 1897)
- "The Romance of Race" in Popular Science Monthly, 53 (August 1898)
- "The Season of the Year" in Popular Science Monthly, 54 (December 1898)
Works about Allen
- "Allen, Charles Grant," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Allen, Grant," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
- "Allen, Grant," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie," in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists (p. 16), (ed.) by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co. (1920)
- ''Flashlights on Nature" : review in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 3 (1899), issue 691 (January), p. 35/6
- "Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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