By P. Morton
This ebook is the 1st severe biography of furnish Allen (1848-1899) in a century, in keeping with the entire surviving fundamental assets. regardless of his lifelong ailing healthiness and comparatively brief lifestyles, Allen was once a author of outstanding productiveness and diversity. approximately 1/2 his paintings displays pursuits which ran from Darwinian biology to cultural shuttle publications. His prosperity, although, used to be underpinned by means of fiction; he wrote greater than thirty novels, together with the girl Who Did, which has attracted a lot fresh recognition from feminist critics and historians. "The Busiest guy in England" makes use of Allen's profession to check the position and standing of the freelance author/journalist within the past due Victorian interval, and analyzes what it took to reach this notoriously tricky occupation.
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How odd, how primitive, how laughable our arrangements would seem to an anthropologist of the future! Perhaps the first seeds of Allen’s anthropological satire The British Barbarians were sown on Wolfe Island. When he was about thirteen,8 part of the family began one of those leisurely tours of Europe, their duration measured in years rather than months, which were such an attractive feature of upper-class life of the time. The senior Allens returned to Canada eventually and took up residence at Alwington, where they lived for the rest of their lives with their unmarried daughter.
This page intentionally left blank Chapter 1 Canada and Oxford ( 18 48–1873) A Canadian Childhood As the great St. Lawrence river streams out of Lake Ontario, with Canada on its western bank and New York State on its eastern, its waters flow over a bed of limestone. But here and there, partly obstructing the river’s passage, bosses of granite emerge from the water. They are the remnants of a band of tough Precambrian rock that is the geological underlay to the Thousand Islands. These shaggy, craggy islets, many more than a thousand in number, are thickly vegetated with pines and shrubs, and by the mid-nineteenth century they had become popular holiday havens.
The population of Kingston was about 35,000, and of the whole island, about half a million. Four-fifths of them were illiterate. Ninety percent of Jamaicans were Negroes, the descendants of West African slaves imported to grow sugar. In Kingston itself, however, Negroes formed rather less than half the population. The balance was made up of Jamaica (1873–1876) 29 racially mixed people whose genes had been variously contributed by East Indians (a few hundred brought in as indentured laborers to replace the slaves), a scattering of Chinese, and other assorted Europeans.