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The New Woman and Technologies of Speed in Fin-de- Siècle Literature
This is the first literary study on the New Woman's interaction with modern speed culture through use of the typewriter and the bicycle. These technologies of speed are among the earliest to be associated with middle-class women, exposing them to the discipline of mechanized speed while allowing for the construction of a new machine-savvy, sped-up, and energized female subjectivity. Used for women's office work and daily movement, they demand from their women operators a response and adaptation to speed right from the beginning. The ability to catch up with, imitate, adjust to, and finally master this mechanized speed, is the key to the New Woman's enlarged freedom in the modern city. By exa...
Miss Cayley's Adventures
Grant Allen's 'Miss Cayley's Adventures' is a delightful and intrepid journey into the life of the eponymous heroine, Lois Cayley. This novel shines with the wit and charm of the late Victorian period, articulated through an episodic narrative that combines elements of mystery, comedy, and romance. Allen's work is rendered in a dexterous prose that oscillates between playful irony and sharp social commentary, situating it within a tradition of literature that explores the agency of the New Woman through adventurous plotlines. Allen's depiction of Lois as an intelligent and unflappable globe-trotter, treating her fortunes and misfortunes with equanimity, is particularly resonant within the fe...
Grant Allen - Recalled to Life
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was born on February 24th, 1848 at Alwington, near Kingston, Canada West (now part of Ontario). Home schooled until 13 when his family moved to England, Grant was to become a highly regarded science writer who branched out to a fiction career and became enormously popular. His work helped propel several genres of fiction and whilst his career was short it was enormously productive. Grant's scientific background enabled him to root much of his work in a plausibility that was denied to others. He had little fear in challenging a society that treated women as second class citizens and creating best sellers from such works. On October 25th 1899 Grant Allen died at his home in Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England. He died just before finishing Hilda Wade. The novel's final episode, which he dictated to his friend, doctor and neighbour Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from his bed appeared under the appropriate title, The Episode of the Dead Man Who Spoke in 1900.
The British Barbarians
Reproduction of the original: The British Barbarians by Grant Allen
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L
The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.
The Type-writer Girl
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General Register
Announcements for the following year included in some vols.
