The complete online text of Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose 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,...

Often told, hard to prove, is the story that in the early decades of this century, Washington's leading society women chained themselves to the White House fence to demonstrate their support of women's suffrage. But even without chains, Alice Paul's National Woman's Party...

Thomas Stone junior defender Kevin Simone stands just barely five feet tall. But, according to Thomas Stone Coach Tom Parker, Simone has spent most of his career off of his feet as the one of the team's top marking backs. "He is the...