Grant Allen (Gutenberg Index)

This index catalogs the complete literary output of Grant Allen, the restless Victorian polymath who bridged science and storytelling. Spanning novels, essays, and biographical sketches, the collection reveals a writer constantly pushing against the boundaries of his era. Here are the proto-science-fiction tales that predated H.G. Wells, the controversial novels on gender and free love that scandalized readers, the essays that brought evolutionary theory to popular audiences, and the working-class biographies that honored lives usually overlooked. Allen wrote with one eye on the future and one on the social injustices around him, whether critiquing British colonialism in "The British Barbarians" or exploring women's autonomy in "The Woman Who Did." This index functions as both bibliography and invitation: a key to entering the mind of a writer who treated no subject as off-limits, who blended romance with scientific speculation, and who believed literature should provoke as much as entertain. For readers seeking the intellectual roots of modern speculative fiction, or anyone curious about the radical voices hidden in the Victorian margins, this catalog opens a door onto a lost world of daring ideas.