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The Orchid (Grant Novel)
''The Orchid'' is a 1905 novel by American writer Robert Grant. Plot introduction A headstrong young woman marries for money and divorces for love. She then sells her infant daughter back to her former husband to secure a two million dollar fortune. References 1905 American novels {{1900s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Robert Grant (novelist)
Robert Grant (January 24, 1852 – May 19, 1940) was an American author and a jurist who participated in a review of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial a few weeks before their executions. Biography Grant was born to Patrick Grant (1810–1895) and Charlotte Boardman (Rice) Grant (1821–1882) in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 24, 1852, and was a descendant of Edmund Rice (colonist), Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony. He attended Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard University in 1873. At one point in his college career he was publicly reprimanded for missing chapel on 22 occasions. He received the first Ph.D. in English granted by Harvard in 1876 and a law degree in 1879. His first novel, published in 1880, was ''The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl'', a realistic depiction of problems facing young women. He published his second novel ''An Average Man'' in 1883, a study of two young New York lawyers with very different ambitions. His next novel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
