Miss Cayley's Adventures, by Grant Allen
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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.
Miss Cayley's Adventures, by Grant Allen- Amazon Sales Rank: #2679994 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-11
- Released on: 2015-06-11
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About the Author Grant Allen has worked in the IT field for over 20 years, as a CTO, enterprise architect, and database administrator. Grant's roles have covered private enterprise, academia and the government sector around the world, specialising in global-scale systems design, development, and performance. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic conferences, on topics ranging from data mining to compliance, and technologies such as databases (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL), content management, collaboration, disruptive innovation, and mobile ecosystems like Android. His first Android application was a task list to remind him to finish all his other unfinished Android projects. Grant works for Google, and in his spare time is completing a Ph.D on building innovative high-technology environments. Grant is the author of Beginning DB2, and lead author of Oracle SQL Recipes and The Definitive Guide to SQLite.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Penniless young lady sets out to see the world By Patto Miss Cayley's Adventures first appeared in 1898. Cambridge was just beginning to admit women, and Girton graduate Lois Cayley is a product of the new liberality. She reads Greek, speaks German like a native, and excels at rowing, punting, and bicycling. Miss Cayley is a New Woman, as well as a perfect lady. Thanks to a profligate stepfather, she's also penniless.With two pence in her pocket, she "naturally" decides to go around the world. Miss Cayley has Faith (with a capital "F") that some means of employment will always turn up, if you're willing to walk out the door and open your mind. It seems she's right.We follow her through various surprising employments in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt and India. She turns out to be a born businesswoman and explorer. An appealing mix of intelligence, refinement, athletic prowess, courage, and "considerable personal attractions" - Miss Cayley collects admirers at every turn.Grant Allen's clever book is a joy to read. Eccentric characters abound, and a quixotic love story runs through the whole. More than one crime intrudes, too, permitting Miss Cayley to play the detective (successfully). And there's an accomplished villain who keeps popping up in the most unlikely guises.Grant Allen, like his heroine, was a man of many talents. He wrote scientific articles, science fiction, and novels. A great talker on myriad subjects, he numbered Charles Darwin and Arthur Conan Doyle among his friends. That Allen was a feminist and a defender of the New Woman is clear from the strong character of the resourceful Miss Cayley.I'm indebted to Michael Sims, editor of The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, for excerpting a chapter from Miss Cayley's Adventures and inspiring me to seek out this delightful book.This edition is eminently readable and includes charming period illustration of the slim-waisted Miss Cayley at interesting stages of her adventures.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. A GENUINE 'FORGOTTEN TREASURE' MYSTERY NOVEL FROM 1899 By David R. Eastwood Grant Allen, the intelligent and witty author of AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE (1896-1897), first serialized MISS CAYLEY'S ADVENTURES in THE STRAND magazine from Mar. 1898 to Feb. 1899. Because this form of publication required that its 12 chapters be nearly equal in length, the book has an artificial rhythm to it, but this seems appropriate to its generally light-hearted tone. As with the novels of Jane Austen, readers can be confident from the beginning that all will end happily for Miss Lois Cayley, although her happiness will have a number of real obstacles threatening it. Good humor and wit and genuine sentiment are mixed with a Fair-Play Puzzle that few readers will be able to solve before our wonderful heroine does.The novel is narrated by Lois Cayley, an unusual young woman - she is amazingly smart, athletic, steadfast, loyal, enterprising, kind-hearted, and courageous. And incidentally beautiful in her own way. With almost no money following graduation from college, she decides she will travel around the world, confident that she will make her way safely and honestly by trusting to her own resourcefulness. And she does. During her journey, she has a series of adventures that for the most part are like pieces in a puzzle the author has craftily constructed for us. Most readers will not see the pattern emerging until the final three chapters. Yet the journey will, for most readers, be a highly enjoyable one. Even the weakest chapter, chapter 7 ("The Adventure of the Unobtrusive Oasis"), set in Egypt and involving a captive female who wishes to be rescued, serves a purpose much later in the book.Along the way, Miss Cayley meets and falls in love with a young man, an heir to a fortune, but she refuses to marry him because she does not wish to be regarded as an "adventuress" - a beauty who pursues and snares a man for his money. Only if he becomes poor and friendless, she says, will she come to help him and marry him. And through a series of ingenious plot twists that are no more implausible than those in most fiction (and much of life), her beloved is charged with the forgery of his uncle's will and is pursued by the law.The resolution of this problem and the defeat of a team of odd, almost Dickensian villains are worked out nicely and in a rather satisfying manner. Grant Allen has succeeded in making the "New Woman" of the late Victorian Age highly attractive and has given her an interesting array of problems and a fine cast of supporting characters. And many scenes in this book are genuinely touching.Readers who are squeamish about the hunting of wild man-eating tigers may wish to skip some portions of Miss Cayley's adventure in India, and many readers will be undoubtedly feel uncomfortable with Allen's no-holds-barred portrayal of 19th-century British racism towards the people of India, which includes racist language similar to that used in Mark Twain's ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Still, all factors considered, in my judgment, this intelligent Mystery-Novel-with-a-Heart deserves a grade of "A-".
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Lois Cayley, delightful New Woman of the Victorian era. By OLT Partly mystery, partly adventure, partly romance and totally an interesting and amusing look at life and people (warts and all) in late Victorian times, this is a "serendipitous" find for me. (I use that term because serendipity is important to Miss Cayley, as you will find if you read this delightful story first published in 1898-99 in serialized installments.) Although this e-format has some faults (e.g., original page numbers placed inside sentences) it includes the original illustrations, and they are plentiful and not to be missed.Young Lois Cayley, recent graduate of Girton College, is an accomplished woman. She can read Greek, speak German, row, punt and bicycle with the best of women athletes, is a loyal friend and of excellent character. She's a free spirit, independent thinker and a New Woman of the late Victorian era.Her only problem is that she is penniless and without relatives. Her free-spirit mentality refuses to allow her to take a position as teacher in the same school as her best friend. Instead she decides she wants to see the world. Well, with two pence to her name, this seems like an impossibility. But then, Miss Cayley thinks, "[Adventures] will not come to you: you must go out to seek them." And she does.Her search first leads her to a temporary position as companion to an older, rather crotchety lady of the peerage, with whom she travels to Germany. This then leads her to a job in Switzerland as salesperson on commission for an American bicycle entrepreneur. From there she's off to Italy, where she sets up a typewriting business. And from there she serendipitously finds herself working as a journalist for an English periodical and is sent off to Egypt and India to write articles about her adventures there.Running through the story is her continuing connection to the old lady, the lady's appealing nephew Harold, a particularly clever con man who adopts several personas and disguises, a stupid, yet conniving cousin to Harold, who wants to be heir to millions rather than Harold, and much, much more. It all ties together nicely. Miss Cayley manages to thwart the con man at every turn and, for romance lovers, there's a happy romantic ending.Grant Allen, the author of this, was a science writer, author and novelist. He was a supporter of the theory of evolution and a feminist. His open-mindedness is reflected in this book, written in the first person POV of a young woman. Her observations of old form British society with its feelings of white British superiority and especially upper class superiority, not to mention feelings of male superiority, make for a refreshing and fun read.
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