Allen Upward

George Allen Upward (Worcester 20 September 1863[1] – Wimborne 12 November 1926[2]) was a British poet, lawyer, politician and teacher.

Upward wrote a number of now-forgotten novels: The Prince of Balkistan (1895), A Crown of Straw (1896), A Bride's Madness (1897), The Accused Princess (1900) (source: Duncan, p. xii), "''The International Spy: Being a Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War" (1905), and Athelstane Ford.

His 1910 novel "The Discovery of the Dead" is a collected fantasy (listed in Bleiler) dealing with the emerging science of Necrology.

In 1907, Upward self-published a book (originally written in 1901) which he apparently thought would be Nobel Prize material: The New Word.

In 1978 Mick Sheldon published an essay which demonstrated alongside his relationship with Pound Upward had a reputation as a popular novelist, lawyer, politician and local celebrity.