Lawrence River. His early up-bringing was informal: his father acted as his tutor, and Allen was left free to explore nature, becoming a naturalist naturally, one could say, from early on. He was a sickly child, however; a delicate constitution bothered him throughout his life and contributed to his early death.
When Allen was thirteen, his family moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where he received instruction from a Yale tutor. In 1862 Allen was sent to school at the Collège Impériale in Dieppe, France. He completed his secondary education at King Edward's School in Birmingham, England. In 1867 he matriculated at Oxford, where he won a Senior Classical Postmastership to become a Merton College Scholar. As a university student, he began to consolidate his long-standing interest in writing. His first publication was a poem entitled "Two Portraits" in the short lived Oxford University Magazine and Review (December 1869). He would later republish it as "Forecast and Fulfilment" in The Lower Slopes (1894). Receiving first-class honors in his Moderations (1869) and second class in his Greats (1870), Allen was awarded a B.A. in 1871.
For the next year he earned money by tutoring at Oxford and teaching at Brighton College, Cheltenham College, and Reading Grammar School.
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