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Robert Grant my also refer to the Romantic period
Romantic period

"The Romantic Period" is generally reckoned to be about 1770-1830. This was a period of great ferment, politically and intellectually. In this period, science and art flourished and developed....
 writer, Robert Grant (Romantic writer)
Robert Grant (Romantic writer)

Robert Grant was a romantic period poet and essayist. Hymn writer of O worship the King. of the British Parliament from Scotland, governor of Bombay...
.

Robert Grant (1852 - 1940) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 author.

t was a Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
 native and 1873 Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 graduate, and received the first Ph.D. in English granted by Harvard. He published his first novel in 1884. His most successful book was Unleavened Bread
Unleavened Bread

Unleavened Bread is a 1900 novel by American writer Robert Grant ....
, which was one of the best selling novels
List of bestselling novels in the United States

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States, as determined by Publishers Weekly. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1900 in literature through 2007 in literature....
 of 1900. His autobiography Fourscore
Fourscore

Fourscore was the signature tune used by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom for 10 years, from 1982 to 1992. It was composed by Lord David Dundas....
 was published in 1934.

Grant was also a probate court judge, appointed in 1893.






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Robert Grant my also refer to the Romantic period
Romantic period

"The Romantic Period" is generally reckoned to be about 1770-1830. This was a period of great ferment, politically and intellectually. In this period, science and art flourished and developed....
 writer, Robert Grant (Romantic writer)
Robert Grant (Romantic writer)

Robert Grant was a romantic period poet and essayist. Hymn writer of O worship the King. of the British Parliament from Scotland, governor of Bombay...
.

Robert Grant (1852 - 1940) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 author.

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Grant was a Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
 native and 1873 Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 graduate, and received the first Ph.D. in English granted by Harvard. He published his first novel in 1884. His most successful book was Unleavened Bread
Unleavened Bread

Unleavened Bread is a 1900 novel by American writer Robert Grant ....
, which was one of the best selling novels
List of bestselling novels in the United States

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States, as determined by Publishers Weekly. The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1900 in literature through 2007 in literature....
 of 1900. His autobiography Fourscore
Fourscore

Fourscore was the signature tune used by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom for 10 years, from 1982 to 1992. It was composed by Lord David Dundas....
 was published in 1934.

Grant was also a probate court judge, appointed in 1893. After he left the bench, Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller
Alvan T. Fuller

Alvan Tufts Fuller was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 27, 1878. He attended the public schools, and engaged in the bicycle business....
 appointed Grant to a commission to review the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti

Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born laborers and Anarchism who were trial , convicted and Electric chair on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts, United States for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of a pay-clerk and a security guard in Braintree, Massachusetts, U.S....
. The commission recommended that the decision to execute both men be upheld.

Work

  • The King's Men, A Tale of To-Morrow
  • The Law-Breakers and Other Stories
  • The Opinions of a Philosopher
  • Unleavened Bread
    Unleavened Bread

    Unleavened Bread is a 1900 novel by American writer Robert Grant ....
  • The Orchid
    The Orchid (Robert Grant novel)

    The Orchid is a 1905 novel by American writer Robert Grant ....
  • Fourscore


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