The complete online text of Early Britain by Grant Allen.

Most of Grant Allen's fiction is now forgotten and nearly all of it is out of print. His detective stories, however, many of which first appeared in the Strand Magazine, have earned critical praise, and volumes of his detective fiction are now sought by...

In the chapter of his Experiment in Autobiography (1934) called "Fairly Launched at Last," H. G. Wells looks back at the influence upon him at the beginning of his literary career. He recalls in particular that once much reviled and now rather too much f...

Prolific, versatile, original, even profound, Grant Allen dedicated his life to the quest for incontrovertible knowledge through the written word. Celebrated not only as a writer of literature and criticism but as a historian, naturalist, anthropologist,...

SUNNY, mild weather has arrived so early in parts of Britain that public gardens are opening ahead of schedule. In the South West, gardens are a riot of colour with camellia, azalea and rhododendron blooming up to two months earlier than usual. ...

Byline: IVAN SPECK THE dream, such as it was, is over. Only another 11 months, 29 days to go before Britain enters a competitor in the Australian Open. In 2003, the country's hopes lasted four hours, 10 minutes into the first...