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Among the Tyrolean peaks, love pulls one way and duty another.
In Linnet, Grant Allen sets a Victorian romance among the mountains of the Tyrol. Love, loyalty and conscience pull against one another, while the landscape shapes the mood and the choices of those who move through it. At the centre lies a difficult question: what do we owe our hearts?
Allen brings his love of landscape and natural science to a story that rewards an easy pace. Description, conversation and small shifts of feeling make room for the conflict between desire and obligation. The pleasure lies in lingering with that tension, in a mountain world of high peaks, villages and flower-filled meadows.
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- Mountains that shape choices Enter an Alpine landscape that does more than frame the love story.
- The claims of loyalty Explore what happens when love and conscience pull in different directions.
- Small shifts of feeling Linger over conversations and descriptions that give emotional uncertainty room to unfold.
- A gentler Victorian romance Settle into a formal, unhurried manner that invites attention rather than haste.
- A question worth keeping Consider where the heart's claims end and the demands of duty begin.
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by Grant Allen · 1898
In the Tyrolean Alps, love pulls against duty as hearts, promises and a place in society hang in the balance.
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Linnet is a novel by Grant Allen, published in 1898, a year before his death. It belongs to the late Victorian romance, a kind of story that sends its people into striking scenery and lets love, loyalty and conscience pull against one another.
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The Alps as a Victorian stage
The Tyrol was a favourite place for British travellers in the nineteenth century. They came for the high peaks, the villages, the meadows full of flowers and the sense of an older way of life. Allen draws on that taste. He sets his story among these mountains, where scenery is part of the drama.
A mountain setting does certain work in a romance. It takes people out of their ordinary routines and puts them in close company. It also gives the writer a rich supply of images, from clear light on snow to the quiet of a valley at evening. Readers of the period would have recognised and enjoyed these pictures.
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What is Linnet by Grant Allen about?
Linnet is a Victorian romance set in the Tyrolean Alps. It follows a love story in which feeling and duty pull against each other, and it uses the mountain setting to shape its mood.
When was Linnet written?
Linnet was published in 1898, near the end of Grant Allen's life. He died in 1899. It is a work of fiction and not a true story, though it draws on real mountain scenery.
Where is Linnet set?
The novel is set in the Tyrol, the Alpine region of Austria and northern Italy. It was a popular destination for British travellers in the Victorian era, which is why it suited a romance.
The author
Grant Allen
1848–1899 · British novelist and science writer
Grant Allen was born near Kingston, Canada, in 1848 and died in Surrey, England, in 1899. He lived in Canada, Jamaica and England. He wrote about science and evolution, as well as novels and short stories. His books include Physiological Aesthetics (1877) and the novel The Woman Who Did (1895).
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