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 |