Throughout her life, Shirley loved to travel, with notable trips across the US and back through Canada in 1961, visits to family in Washington, DC, Norfolk, Virginia and Ottawa. Shirley was an active member of Eastern Star in Queen Esther Chapter in Dartmouth where she served as Grand Adah in 2008-09 and Worthy Matron in 2009-10. When the family moved back to Dartmouth in 1991, Shirley began work in a local bakery where she trained as a cake decorator and became sought after for her creative and beautiful cakes for birthdays, weddings and all manner of events. Throughout her life, Shirley loved music and was a long-time valued member of the St. Tingley Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star in Moncton and a trusted and valued advisor to the members of Westmorland Assembly of the Rainbow Girls, also in Moncton. During this period Shirley became a valued member and leader in Frank H.

Shirley spent the next 20 years raising her children, and caring for her family, including her mother who lived with the Walton family from 1974 until her death in 1990. After graduation she became head nurse on the urology ward of the old Victoria General Hospital until 1970 when she retired as head nurse and did shifts on the same ward. She returned to the Maritimes in 1963 and earned a Diploma in Nursing Administration from Dalhousie University. Then it was Ottawa, ON for three years and Boston, MA for one year. She worked there for six months and then moved to Hamilton, ON for two years. She and several classmates moved to Welland, ON after graduation. Then she began her “nursing tourism” years. Shirley went on to train as a Registered Nurse at the Moncton Hospital Training School and graduated fourth in her class of forty in 1958. She went to high school at the Regional Memorial High School in Port Elgin, NB, graduating in 1955. Shirley was born in Little Shemogue, Westmorland County, NB to Agnes (Blacklock) and Walter Murray on February 20, 1937. His beautifully-written biography - the first for more than a century - of this remarkable and unjustly neglected figure throws a brilliant new light on the entire literary-cultural scene of late nineteenth-century England.Shirley Agnes Walton (Murray), age 84 of Dartmouth, NS passed away peacefully on January 28, 2022 in Halifax. Peter Morton, having combed through dusty archives with the energy of a Sherlock Holmes, has emerged, not only with a solution to the mystery, but also with an unsurpassed knowledge of Grant Allen and his times.

An outspoken atheist, socialist, evolutionist, sexual radical, and polymath, he was one of the chief shapers of the iconoclastic mentality of the 1890s.įor reasons which have long been mysterious, Allen, from a wealthy Canadian family, was dependent upon the new mass market for popular fiction to keep the wolf from the door. 'Remembered today mainly for his best-selling 'sex-problem' novel The Woman Who Did, Grant Allen was the most versatile man of letters in late Victorian London, and one of the most controversial.

Allen's career delineates what it took to succeed in this notoriously tough profession. The Better End of Grub Street uses Allen's career to examine the role and status of the freelance author/journalist in the late-Victorian period. His prosperity, however, was underpinned by fiction more than 30 novels, including The Woman Who Did, which has attracted much recent attention from feminist critics and historians. About half - more than 30 books and many hundreds of articles - reflects interests which ran from Darwinian biology to cultural travel guides. Despite his lifelong ill health and short life, Allen was a writer of extraordinary productivity and range. A mysterious marriage while he was an Oxford undergraduate wrecked his academic career and radicalized his views on sexual and marital questions, as did a three-year teaching stint in Jamaica. Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family, Allen was educated in France and England. This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources.

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