Grant Allen
Birth date: February 24, 1848
Died: October 25, 1899
Grant Allen's Books
Serendipity, coincidence, ingenuity, and just plain dumb luck are all on the side of plucky heroine Lois Cayley in Grant Allen's Miss Cayley's Adventures. At times the perfection of Miss Cayley wears a bit thin, but her personality and observations remain enjoyable throughout. While the book wa...
Lois Cayley is the quick-witted, sharp-tongued, stout-hearted heroine of this sweet little novel. She's so clever and masterful that her various triumphs come as no surprise, but her asides are so amusing that her near-perfection is never annoying. The quips and bon mots are hilarious (see my stat...
[These notes were made in 1989:]. I rather like Mr. Allen's poems on the whole. He's pretty conventional in form, but he has more than occasionally a nice turn of phrase, and more than once I recognized a pattern of thought without feeling it was a cliché - more on the order of "yes, I've thought ...
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