Hilda Wade- A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose is a mystery novel, written by Grant Allen. As a female protagonist author had written this delightful, interesting, detective novel. It was author's last book, due to illness he could not complete the last chapter. So Arthur Conan Doyle, his writer friend completed it. Arthur is also famous for his detective stories. The novel was published in 1899, popularly termed as a New Woman Novel. Hilda Wade is dutiful professionally good nurse. She joins Dr. Hubert Cumberledge's hospital in London. Doctor praises her qualities and becomes her true friend. Hilda has one purpose in her life. She acts as detective and saves her life from prime suspects. She flees from London to South Africa, India,Tibet, Nepal and back. She gets full support of Dr. Cumberledge.
Grant Allen was an essayists, anthropologist, science writer, poet and novelist. He was born on 24 February 1848 near Kingston, Ontario in Canada. His parents were Rev. Joseph Antiseptic Allen and Catharine Ann Grant. His parents moved from Canada to United States, then France and finally settled in United Kingdom. He got education in King Edward's school, and Merton college Oxford in the United Kingdom. After doing advanced studies in France he became a professor. He became an atheist and socialist. But for writing passion he left the job and returned England. He received appreciation for writing specially for scientific vision. He promoted theory of evolution. He died of liver cancer in 1899. His famous writing works - The Devil's Die, The White Man's Foot, The Woman Who Did, The British Barbarians, An African Millionaire, Victorian Tales of Terror, The Evolution of the Idea of God etc.
