Leonard Merrick
1864-1939
 

Leonard Merrick was born as Leonard Miller in London. He studied law at Heidelberg, Germany. At the age of eighteen he had to travel to South Africa after his father suffered a serious financial loss. In South Africa he worked as an overseer in a diamond mine and in a sollicitors office. He returned to London in the late 1880s and worked as an actor and actormanager. He legally changed his name to Leonard Merrick in 1892.

 

Titles and year of publication:  

 1) Mr. Bazalgettes Agent  1888
 2) The Worldlings  1900
 3) The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories (short stories)  1908
 4) The Call from the Past, and Other Stories (short stories)  1910
 5) All the World Wondered (short stories)  1911
 6) A Chair on the Boulevard  1919
 7) Four Stories (novelets)  1925
 8) The Little Dog Laughed (short stories)  1930

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