An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Sir Charles Vandrift, South African millionaire, is fleeced twelve times by the same man — Colonel Clay, master of disguise — and each time he is quite certain it cannot happen again. Allen wrote popular Darwinism for a living and detonated a scandal with The Woman Who Did; this 1897 book was one of the first to make a swindler the hero of a series, and the joke is that the millionaire made his money by methods no better than Clay's. Fifty-four plates of portraiture and society scenes by painters including Giovanni Boldini and James Tissot, spanning 1811 to 1916, match the book's gallery of masks, manners and the well-dressed swindler.
Sir Charles Vandrift, South African millionaire, is fleeced twelve times by the same man — Colonel Clay, master of disguise — and each time he is quite certain it cannot happen again. Allen wrote popular Darwinism for a living and detonated a scandal with The Woman Who Did; this 1897 book was one...
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Grant Allen (1848-1899) was a Canadian-born writer and naturalist raised in Britain. He wrote on evolution and psychology before turning to fiction, and his novel The Woman Who Did caused a scandal by defending free union. His works include The Woman Who Did, The Type-Writer Girl, An African Millionaire, and Physiological Aesthetics.
Grant Allen (1848-1899) was a Canadian-born writer and naturalist raised in Britain. He wrote on evolution and psychology before turning to fiction, and his novel The Woman Who Did caused a scandal by defending free union. His works include The Woman Who Did, The Type-Writer Girl, An African Mill...
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