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- Birth nameCharles Grant Blairfindie Allen
- Grant Allen was born on February 24, 1848 in Kingston, Canada. He was a writer, known for The Woman Who Did (1915), What's Bred... Comes Out in the Flesh (1916) and The Scallywag (1921). He was married to Ellen Jarrad. He died on October 28, 1899 in Hindhead, Surrey, England, UK.
- SpouseEllen Jarrad(1873 - October 28, 1899) (his death, 1 child)
- He married his first wife while at the University of Oxford, where he received a degree in the classics, but she died within two years.
- In 1892, he became friends with Arthur Conan Doyle, who completed the last two chapters of Allen's unfinished novel "Hilda Wade."
- A naturalist and philosopher interested in evolutionary philosophy, Allen wrote amateur sleuth fiction which mostly appeared as serials in popular magazines. He is credited with creating the first thief-protagonist of crime fiction and with creating the first female sleuths.
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