KEYNOTE. ALLEN, Grant. The Woman Who Did. FIRST EDITION. John Lane. (Keynotes series, no. 8) 1895
Half title, title with design by Aubrey Beardsley, 7pp reviews, 16pp cata. (1895). Uncut in orig. olive-green cloth, blocked in white, spine lettered in gilt. A nice bright copy.
¶See Wolff 127. Grant Allen, 1848-1899, was a Canadian novelist and science writer who was a staunch supporter of evolution throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century. Allen started writing fiction in the mid 1880s and his novels include works of early science fiction as well as 'new women' novels, of which this is the most notorious - going through nineteen editions in a year; it is the story of an independent, unmarried woman having a child.