Hilda Wade

Hilda Wade is a nurse working for the famous doctor Hubert Cumberledge. He admires Hilda and their friendship grows stronger with every passing day. Hilda's past and her future goals are however shrouded in mystery. She has one purpose in life and she is willing to go to great lengths to pursuit it. What is the goal that will make the young nurse travel across the whole world? Find out in Grant Allen's detective story "Hilda Wade". Grant Allen was a Canadian writer who lived in the period 1848 - 1899.
His writing career began around 1876 when he published a series of essays on science. His first books, "Physiological Aesthetics" and "Flowers and Their Pedigrees" took up this subject as well. Grant Allen was also a pioneer in science fiction. He wrote about thirty science fiction novels in the period 1884-1899. In his later works, Allen also took up some revolutionary theories for the time regarding marriage.
"The Woman Who Did" which depicts the life of an independent woman who takes care of her child on her own became a bestseller.