Editing Allen Upward (section)

==Literary career==
He wrote two books of poetry, ''Songs in Ziklag'' (1888) and ''Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar''. He also published a translation of the ''[[Analects|Sayings of Confucius]]'' (1904) and a volume of autobiography, ''Some Personalities'' (1921).

Upward wrote a number of 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''. This book is today known as the first citation of the word ''"Scientology"'', however there was no delineation in this book of its definition by Upward. It is unknown whether [[L. Ron Hubbard]], the founder of the [[Scientology]]-organization, knew of this book.
His 1913 book ''The Divine Mystery'' is an anthropological study of Christian mythology.

In 1917 the [[British Museum]] refused to take Upward's manuscripts, "on the grounds that the writer was still alive," and Upward burned them (source: Duncan, p. xi).