"Jacob's Dream"

Title"Jacob's Dream"
Year for Search1899
Authors[Allen], [Charles Grant Blairfindie](1848-99)
Tertiary AuthorsAllen, Grant [pseud.]
Secondary TitleCosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine
Volume / Edition26.3
Pagination277-87
Date PublishedJanuary 1899
KeywordsCanadian author, English author, Jamaican author, Male author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia of a future in which corporations control the food supply and cut off England. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Temple Magazine (Silas K. Hocking’s Illustrated Monthly) 3 (December 1899): 202-11.

Illustration

Illus. H[enry] Pruett Share (1853-1905)

Pseudonym

Grant Allen [pseud.]

Author Note

The author (1848-99) was born in Canada, educated in the U.S. and England, and lived for five years in Jamaica. In 1876, he moved from Jamaica to England, where he spent his entire writing career.

Full Text

1899 [Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie] (1848-99). “Jacob’s Dream.” By Grant Allen [pseud.]. Illus. H[enry] Pruett Share (1853-1905). Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine 26.3 (January 1899): 277-87. Rpt. in Temple Magazine (Silas K. Hocking’s Illustrated Monthly) 3 (December 1899): 202-11.

Dystopia of a future in which corporations control the food supply and cut off England. The author was born in Canada, educated in the U.S. and England, and lived for five years in Jamaica. In 1876, he moved from Jamaica to England, where he spent his entire writing career.