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James Payn was born in Berkshire. He was an author, editor, and short story writer. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 1) Stories and Sketches (short stories) | 1857 |
| 2) The Bateman Household | 1860 |
| 3) Richard Arbour; or, The Family Scapegrace (Also published as: The Family Scapegrace; or, Richard Arbour [1869]) | 1861 |
| 4) Lost Sir Massingberd | 1864 |
| 5) Married Beneath Him | 1865 |
| 6) The Clyffards of Clyffe | 1866 |
| 7) Mirk Abbey | 1866 |
| 8) Carlyon's Year | 1867 |
| 9) Bentinck's Tutor, One of the Family | 1868 |
| 10) Blondel Parva | 1868 |
| 11) A County Family (US Title: A Beggar on Horseback; or, A County Family [1869]) | 1869 |
| 12) Found Dead | 1869 |
| 13) Maxims by a Man of the World | 1869 |
| 14) A Perfect Treasure | 1869 |
| 15) Gwendoline's Harvest | 1870 |
| 16) Bred in the Bone; or, Like Father, Like Son | 1871 |
| 17) A Marine Residence, and Other Stories (short stories) | 1871 |
| 18) Not Wooed, But Won | 1871 |
| 19) At Her Mercy | 1872 |
| 20) Cecil's Tryst | 1872 |
| 21) A Woman's Vengeance | 1872 |
| 22) Murphy's Master, and Other Stories (short stories) | 1873 |
| 23) The Best of Husbands | 1874 |
| 24) Walter's Word | 1875 |
| 25) Fallen Fortunes | 1876 |
| 26) Halves, a novel (and Other Tales) | 1876 |
| 27) What He Cost Her | 1877 |
| 28) By Proxy | 1878 |
| 29) Less Black Than We're Painted | 1878 |
| 30) High Spirits (short stories) | 1879 |
| 31) Two Houndred Pounds Reward and Other Tales (short stories) | 1879 |
| 32) Under One Roof | 1879 |
| 33) A Confidential Agent | 1880 |
| 34) From Exile | 1881 |
| 35) A Grape from a Thorn | 1881 |
| 36) For Cash Only | 1882 |
| 37) Kit: A Memory | 1882 |
| 38) Thicker Than Water | 1883 |
| 39) The Canon's Ward | 1884 |
| 40) The Talk of the Town | 1884 |
| 41) A Bitter Reckoning | 1885 |
| 42) The Luck of the Darrells | 1885 |
| 43) The Heir of the Ages | 1886 |
| 44) Glow-Worm Tales (short stories) | 1887 |
| 45) The Eavesdropper | 1888 |
| 46) The Mystery of Mirbridge | 1888 |
| 47) The Burnt Million | 1889 |
| 48) The Word and the Will | 1890 |
| 49) Sunny Stories and Some Shady Ones (short stories) | 1891 |
| 50) A Modern Dick Whittington; or, A Patron of Letters | 1892 |
| 51) A Stumble on the Threshold | 1892 |
| 52) A Trying Patient (short stories) | 1893 |
| 53) In Market Overt | 1895 |
| 54) The Disappearance of George Driffell | 1896 |
| 55) Another's Burden | 1897 |