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ALLEN UPWARD

1863 - 1926

Writing as: Allen Upward


According to the bio on Wikipedia:

George Allen Upward was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, which was edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914. He was a first cousin once removed of Edward Upward. His parents were George and Mary Upward, and he was survived by an elder sister (Mary) Edith Upward.

Upward was brought up as a member of the Plymouth Brethren and trained as a lawyer at the Royal University of Dublin (now University College Dublin). While living in Dublin, he wrote a pamphlet in favour of Irish Home Rule.

Upward later worked for the British Foreign Office in Kenya as a judge. Back in Britain, he defended Havelock Wilson and other labour leaders and ran for election as a Lib-Lab candidate, taking 659 votes in Merthyr at the 1895 general election.

He shot himself in November 1926. Ezra Pound would a decade later satirically remark that this was due to his disappointment after hearing of George Bernard Shaw's Nobel Prize award which Shaw won in 1925.



Series Books
 
Andrea V Secret History of To-Day (1903)
  The International Spy (1905)
  The Telegram Which Began the Boer War (ss) (1903)
  The Blowing Up of the 'Maine' (ss) (1903)
  The Mystery of Captain Dreyfus (ss) (1903)
  What Was Behind the Tsar's Peace Rescript (ss) (1903)
  Who Really Killed King Humbert (ss) (1903)
  The Peril of Norway (ss) (1903)
  The Ruse of the Dowager Empress (ss) (1904)
  The Abdication of Francis-Joseph (ss) (1904)
  The Death of Queen Drago (ss) (1904)
  The Policy of Edward VII (ss) (1904)
  The Humbert Millions (ss) (1904)
  The Black Pope (ss) (1904)
  The Kaiser's Escapade (ss) (1906)
  A Secret Of The Sultan's Harem (ss) (1906)
  The Secret Treaty Of Portsmouth (ss) (1906)
  Wanted - A King (ss) (1906)
  The Dethronement Of Nicholas II (ss) (1906)
  The Arrest Of An Empress (ss) (1906)
  The Theft Of The Bismarck Manuscript (ss) (1907)
  The Midnight Meeting Of The Emperors (ss) (1907)
 
Other The Accused Princess (1900)
  The Ambassador’s Adventure (1901)
  Athelstane Ford (1899)
  A Bride’s Madness (1897)
  The Club of Masks aka The Domino Club (1926)
  A Crown of Straw (1896)
  A Day’s Tragedy (1897)
  The Domino Club aka The Club of Masks (1926)
  God Save the Queen! (1897)
  High Treason (1903)
  The House of Sin (1926)
  Lord Alistair’s Rebellion (1906)
  On Her Majesty’s Service (1904)
  One of God’s Dilemmas (1896)
  The Ordeal by Fire (1904)
  The Prince of Balkistan (1895)
  The Queen Against Owen (1894)
  Romance of Politics (1904)
  Secrets of the Courts of Europe (1897)
  Secrets of the Past (1908)
  The Venetian Key (1927)
  The Wonderful Career of Ebenezer Lobb (1900)
  The Wrongdoer (1900)
  The Yellow Hand (1904)