James Payn
1830-1898
 

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

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