Miss Cayley S Adventures

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726612790

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Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen Pdf

Lois Cayley is an intelligent, young, attractive and independent woman who is forced to face the world on her own after the death of her stepfather. Since there is nothing left to stop her, she decides to set off in search of adventures. She visits different places, cities and countries. She meets colorful people and falls in love with one of them. Unfortunately, Harold Tillington is in prison. Can Cayley’s save and free her true love? Will she be able to solve his case on her own? Find out in Grant Allen’s "Miss Cayley's Adventures". Grant Allen was a Canadian writer who lived in the period 1848 – 1899. His writing career began around 1876 when he published a series of essays on science. His first books, "Physiological Aesthetics" and "Flowers and Their Pedigrees" took up this subject as well. Grant Allen was also a pioneer in science fiction. He wrote about thirty science fiction novels in the period 1884-1899. In his later works, Allen also took up some revolutionary theories for the time regarding marriage. "The Woman Who Did" which depicts the life of an independent woman who takes care of her child on her own became a bestseller.

Author : Allen Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 131892958X

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Miss Cayley's Adventures by Allen Grant Pdf

Author : Gordon Browne,Grant Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337548792

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Miss Cayley's Adventures by Gordon Browne,Grant Allen Pdf

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1980447969

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Miss Cayley's Adventures (Illustrated) by Grant Allen Pdf

On the day when I found myself with twopence in my pocket, I naturally made up my mind to go round the world

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798710175767

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Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen Pdf

On the day when I found myself with twopence in my pocket, I naturally made up my mind to goround the world.It was my stepfather's death that drove me to it. I had never seen my stepfather. Indeed, I nevereven thought of him as anything more than Colonel Watts-Morgan. I owed him nothing, except mypoverty. He married my dear mother when I was a girl at school in Switzerland; and he proceeded tospend her little fortune, left at her sole disposal by my father's will, in paying his gambling debts.After that, he carried my dear mother off to Burma; and when he and the climate between them hadsucceeded in killing her, he made up for his appropriations at the cheapest rate by allowing me justenough to send me to Girton. So, when the Colonel died, in the year I was leaving college, I did notthink it necessary to go into mourning for him. Especially as he chose the precise moment when myallowance was due, and bequeathed me nothing but his consolidated liabilities.'Of course you will teach, ' said Elsie Petheridge, when I explained my affairs to her. 'There is a gooddemand just now for high-school teachers.'I looked at her, aghast. 'Teach! Elsie, ' I cried. (I had come up to town to settle her in at herunfurnished lodgings.) 'Did you say teach? That's just like you dear good schoolmistresses! You go toCambridge, and get examined till the heart and life have been examined out of you; then you say toyourselves at the end of it all, "Let me see; what am I good for now? I'm just about fit to go awayand examine other people!" That's what our Principal would call "a vicious circle"-if one couldever admit there was anything vicious at all about you, dear. No, Elsie, I do not propose to teach.Nature did not cut me out for a high-school teacher. I couldn't swallow a poker if I tried for weeks.Pokers don't agree with me. Between ourselves, I am a bit of a rebel.''You are, Brownie, ' she answered, pausing in her papering, with her sleeves rolled up-they calledme 'Brownie, ' partly because of my dark complexion, but partly because they could neverunderstand me. 'We all knew that long ago.'I laid down the paste-brush and mu

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1006745009

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Miss Cayley's Adventures (Esprios Classics) by Grant Allen Pdf

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. After leaving his professorship, in 1876 he returned to England, where he turned his talents to writing, gaining a reputation for his essays on science and for literary works. A 2007 book by Oliver Sacks cites with approval one of Allen's early articles, "Note-Deafness" (a description of what became known as amusia, published in 1878 in the learned journal Mind). Allen's first books dealt with scientific subjects, and include Physiological Æsthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886).

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Horse's Mouth
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785432923

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Grant Allen - Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen Pdf

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was born on February 24th, 1848 at Alwington, near Kingston, Canada West (now part of Ontario). Home schooled until 13 when his family moved to England, Grant was to become a highly regarded science writer who branched out to a fiction career and became enormously popular. His work helped propel several genres of fiction and whilst his career was short it was enormously productive. Grant's scientific background enabled him to root much of his work in a plausibility that was denied to others. He had little fear in challenging a society that treated women as second class citizens and creating best sellers from such works. On October 25th 1899 Grant Allen died at his home in Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England. He died just before finishing Hilda Wade. The novel's final episode, which he dictated to his friend, doctor and neighbour Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from his bed appeared under the appropriate title, The Episode of the Dead Man Who Spoke in 1900.

Author : Dr Christopher Pittard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478829

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Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction by Dr Christopher Pittard Pdf

Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161646125X

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2 Detectives by Grant Allen Pdf

This volume of 2 Detectives brings together two female detectives by the same author. Grant Allen's protagonists, Miss Cayley and Hilda Wade are determined, smart, and resourceful. They join the ranks of the early independent female adventurers who paved the way for the modern female detective. Miss Cayley's intrepid spirit finds numerous adventures as she makes something of herself, even when she finds she must fight against a criminal deceit that would rob the man she loves of his fortune and freedom. Hilda Wade is unswerving in her aim to unmask her father's cold-blooded killer, and bring him to justice, even if he is one of the most intelligent, and respected, of men.

Author : Joseph A. Kestner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351900348

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Sherlock's Sisters by Joseph A. Kestner Pdf

Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This character, originating in the 1860s, configures a new representation of women in narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis explores female empowerment through professional unofficial or official detection, especially as this surveillance illuminates legal, moral, gendered, institutional, criminal, punitive, judicial, political, and familial practices. This book considers a range of literary texts by both female and male writers which concentrate on detection by women, particularly those which followed the creation of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Cultural movements, such as the emergence of the New Woman, property law or suffragism, are stressed in the exploits of these resourceful investigators. These daring women deal with a range of crimes, including murder, blackmail, terrorism, forgery, theft, sexual harassment, embezzlement, fraud, impersonation and domestic violence. Privileging the exercise of reason rather than intuition, these women detectives are proto-feminist in their demonstration of women's independence. Instead of being under the law, these women transform it. Their investigations are given particular edge because many of the perpetrators of these crimes are women. Sherlock's Sisters probes many texts which, because of their rarity, have been under-researched. Writers such as Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, Emmuska Orczy, L.T. Meade, Catherine Pirkis, Fergus Hume, Grant Allen, Leonard Merrick, Marie Belloc Lowndes, George Sims, McDonnell Bodkin and Richard Marsh are here incorporated into the canon of Victorian and Edwardian literature, many for the first time. A writer such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon is reassessed through a neglected novel. The book includes works by Irish and Australian writers to present an inclusive array of British texts. Sherlock's Sisters enlarges the perception of emerging female empowerment during the nineteenth century, filling an important gap in the fields of Gender Studies, Law/Literature and Popular Culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108036020975

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The Strand Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476633596

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Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction by Kevin A. Morrison Pdf

 This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.

Author : Joseph Wiesenfarth
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838640133

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Redefining the Modern by Joseph Wiesenfarth Pdf

Redefining the Modern spans nearly a century and a half in a series of essays that capture the crucial shifts and transformations marking the change from the Victorian to the Modern period. At the center of the collection is the understanding that literature responds to, as well as initiates, social, intellectual, and sometimes political change. It also recognizes that historical categories, like genres, need to be realigned. The diverse material ranges from Jane Austen's laughter to female detectives and black fiction. It coheres, however, through its focus on the interaction of language and society and the way language and culture maintain a persistent and dynamic exchange. Rather than deny links between one period and another, this collection argues for continuity and development, emphasizing revision and renewal rather than rejection and refusal. No longer do critics accept fierce divides or unbridgeable paths between the work of the Victorians and moderns. Recent approaches to the period, reflecting gender, cultural studies, and new historicism, provide fresh means of assessment. Central to this reconception is the recognition that if the Victorians invented us, we, in turn, h

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092772706

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Boston Home Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Toronto Public Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015033644991

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Subject Catalogue of Books in the Central Circulating Library by Toronto Public Libraries Pdf