Male : Novelist, Philosopher and scientific writer. He married Caroline Bootheway in 1868 (she died of TB in 1871). His second wife, Ellen Jerrard, he married in 1873. Wrote about 30 novels. He died of liver disease.

Nationality : Canadian Place of Birth : Nr Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Date of Birth : 1848 Date of Death : 1899 Age : 51

Pseudonyms : Cecil Power. J Arbuthnot Wilson. Olive Pratt Rayner. Martin Leach Warborough

Other Work : Schoolteacher in England & Jamaica

Education : King Edward's School, Birmingham & Merton College, Oxford University (Classics)

FICTION
1884-1886
Strange Stories (1884 Chatto & Windus) - as J Arbuthnot Wilson
Philistia (1884 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols. As Cecil Power
Babylon (1885 Chatto & Windus) - As Cecil Power
Kalee's Shrine (1886 Arrowsmith, Bristol / Simpkin Marshall, London) - with May Coates
For Maimie's Sake : A Tale of Love and Dynamite (1886 Chatto & Windus)
In All Shades (1886 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols

1887-1890
A Terrible Inheritance (1887 SPCK)
The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories (1887 Chatto & Windus)
The White Man's Foot (1888 Hatchards)
The Devil's Die (1888 Chatto & Windus)
This Mortal Coil (1887 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Dr Palliser's Patient (1889 Samuel Mullen)
The Tent's of Shem (1889 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
The Jaws of Death (1889 Simpkin Marshall)
A Living Apparition (1889 SPCK)
The Great Taboo (1890 Chatto & Windus)
The Sole Trustee (1890 SPCK)

1891-1895
Dumaresq's Daughter (1891 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Recalled to Life (1891 Arrowsmith)
What's Bred in the Bone (1891 Tit Bits Office) - [£1000 Prize Novel]
The Duchess of Powysland (1892 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Blood Royal (1893
The Scallywag (1893 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Michael's Crag (1893 Simpkin Marshall) - F G & A C Gould
Ivan Greet's Masterpiece (1893 Chatto & Windus) - ss
An Army Doctor's Romance (1894 Raphael Tuck)
At Market Value (1894 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
Under Sealed Orders (1895 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
The Desire of the Eyes (1895 Digby Long) - ss
The Woman Who Did (1895 John Lane) (1895 Roberts, Boston)
- cover design & title page by Beardsley
[This created a scandal because of its graphic sexual context]
The British Barbarians (1895 John Lane) (1895 Laner/Putnams US)
- cover design & title page by Beardsley

1896 ONWARDS
A Splendid Sin (1896 F V White)
A Bride from the Desert (1896 Fenno, NY)
The Typewriter Girl (1897 Pearson) - As Olive Pratt Rayner
Tom Unlimited (1897 Grant Richards) - As Martin Leach Warborough
An African Millionaire (1897 Grant Richards) - ss. Gordon Browne
The Incidental Bishop (1898 Pearson)
Linnet (1898 Grant Richards)
The Cruise of the Albatross, or When Was Wednesday the Tenth ? (1898)
Rosalba (1899 Pearson) - As Olive Pratt Rayner
Twelve Tales (1899 Grant Richards)
Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899 Grant Richards) - ss. Gordon Browne
Hilda Wade (1900 Grant Richards) - ss. Gordon Browne
[The conclusion of this book was completed by Conan Doyle after Allen's death]
The Backslider (1901 Lewis Scribner)
Sir Theodore's Guest and Other Stories (1902 Arrowsmith)
The Bride of the Mistletoe (1909 Macmillan)

NON-FICTION
1877-1885
Physiological Aesthetics (1877 H S King)
Gazeteer of India (assisted Sir W W Hunter)
The Colour Sense : Its Origin and Development (1879 Trubner)
Vignettes from Nature (1881 Chatto & Windus)
An Evolutionist at Large (1881 Chatto & Windus)
Anglo-Saxon Britain (1881 SPCK)
The Colour of Flowers (1882 Macmillan)
Colin Clout's Calendar (1882 Chatto & Windus)
Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1883)
Biographies of Working Men (1884 SPCK)
Darwin (1885 Longmans)

1886-1895
Force and Energy : A Theory of Dynamics (1888 Longmans)
Falling in Love & other Essays (1889 Smith Elder)
Science in Arcady (1892 Lawrence & Bullen)
Postprandial Philosophy (1894 Chatto & Windus)
The Lower Slopes : Reminiscences of Excursions Round the Base of Helicon
(1894 Elkin Mathews & John Lane) - Poetry. 600 for England
The Story of Plants (1895 Newnes)
In Memoriam G P Macdonell (1895 Percy Lund)

1896-1900
Moorland Idylls (1896 Chatto & Windus)
The Evolution of the Idea of God (1897 Grant Richards)
Paris (1897 Grant Richards)
Florence (1897 Grant Richards)
Cities of Belgium (1897 Grant Richards)
Venice (1898 Grant Richards)
The European Tour (1899 Grant Richards)
Flashlights on Nature (1899 Newnes) - Frederick Enock

AFTER 1901
County and Town in England : Together with Some Annals of Churnside (1901 Grant Richards)
In Nature's Workshop (1901 Newnes)
Evolution in Italian Art (1908 Grant Richards)
The Hand of God and Other Posthumous Essays (1909 Watts)

READING
Edward Clodd : Grant Allen - A Memoir with a Bibliography (1900 Grant Richards)
B A Melchiori : Grant Allen - The Downward Path which Leads to Fiction
(2000 Bulzoni, Rome)