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Grant Allen

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Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (1848–1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. Grant Allen's notable works include The Woman Who Did.

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“A woman with so passionate a nature as hers, married against her will to a man she could never love, and meeting once more the man whom she loved, the man who really loved her, must find such friendship a dangerous pitfall.”

— Grant Allen《Linnet》

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Book · 1898

Linnet

Linnet is a romance novel by Grant Allen, published in 1898. Set in the Tyrol region of the Alps and in London, the novel contrasts the simplicity of rural Alpine life with the sophisticated urban environment of England.

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