Author:Barry Pain

Barry Pain
(1864–1928)

Barry Pain

Works

Eliza stories

• Eliza (1900) illus. Wallace Goldsmith librivox
• Eliza's Husband (1903)
• Eliza Getting On (1911)
• Exit Eliza (1912)
• Eliza's Son (1913)

Novels

• Graeme And Cyril (1893), published as Two in the U.S.
• The Kindness of the Celestial (1894)
• The Octave of Claudius (1897) IA
• The Romantic History Of Robin Hood (1898) (also serialised as Robin Hood and His Merry Men in The English Illustrated Magazine, 1898)
• Another English Woman's Love Letters (1901)
• De Omnibus, by the Conductor (1901? serialised in To-day,1894-1895) IA
• Nothing Serious (1901)
• Another Englishwoman's Love-Letters (1901) IA
• The One Before (1902) IA
• Little Entertainments (1903)
• Three Fantasies (1904)
• Deals (1904)
• Lindley Kays (1904)
• Robinson Crusoe's Return (1906)
• Wilhelmina In London (1906)
• The Shadow of the Unseen with James Blyth (1907)
• The Diary Of A Baby (1907)
• The Luck Of Norman Dale with James Blyth (1908)
• First Lessons In Story-writing (1908)
• Proofs Before Pulping (1909)
• The Gifted Family (1909)
• The Exiles of Faloo (1910) IA : PG
• An Exchange of Souls (1911) IA
• Mr. Malding's Progress (1912; promotional story/booklet for Berlitz Schools of Languages)
• Mrs. Murphy (1913)
• The Mountain Apart (as by James Prosper) (1913)
• Edwards (1915)
• Me And Harris (1916)
• Confessions Of Alphonse (1917)
• Innocent Amusements (1918)
• Says Mrs. Hicks ( circa 1918)
• The Problem Club (1919) IA
• The Death Of Maurice (1920)
• Marge Askinforit (1920) IA : PG
• Going Home (1921)

Short stories and collections

• In a Canadian Canoe: The Nine Minus One Minus One (1891), papers reprinted from The Granta IA
• Playthings and Parodies (1892) IA
• Stories And Interludes (1892) (transcription project)
• Wilmay and Other Stories of Women (1898)
  • Wilmay — The Love Story of a Plain Woman — The History of Clare Tollison — The Forgiveness of the Dead — A Complete Recovery
• Stories in the Dark (1901)
• Curiosities (1904)
• The Memoirs Of Constantine Dix, 1905 (1904)
  • The Dead Man Wins — Reclamation Work — With a Clear Conscience — Checkmate — The Rewards of Perseverance — Lost Property — Holiday Work — The Bellasen Cross — Numbered Notes — Impersonation — The Change — Murder
• Stories In Grey (1911) IA
• Here And Hereafter (1911) PG
• Stories Without Tears (1912) IA
  • Great Possessions — A Model Man — The Marriage of Miranda — The Failure of Professor Palbeck — The 'Eighty-Seven — Clubs And Hearts — One Stone — General Observations — The Boy and the Pessimist — Chrisimissima — A Vicious Circle — Sunnibrow — Aunt Martha — A Devil, a Boy, and a Trade Designer — The Key of the Hen-House — One Hour of Fame — Sara — The Blanking Business — The Cheat — The Difficult Case — Some Imitations — The Celestial's Editorship — The Tenwood Witch — Lovers on an Island — The Hero and the Burglar
  • MORAL STORIES: Appreciation — The Philosopher — The Life of a Bubble — For Value Received — Omnia Vanitas — The Love Philter — Doing Good — Kind Words — The Worthless Stones — Gold — The Pig and the Jacoby — The Wrong Elixir — Evolution — Blue Roses — The Street of Peril — The Curate, the Boy, and the Bee — George — Pull The Right String — Too Much Self-Help — Not Impervious to Damp
• The New Gulliver, and other stories (1913) IA : PG
• The Short Story (1914)
• Futurist Fifteen (1914)
• One Kind And Another (1914)
• Collected Tales (1916) short stories IA
  • Volume I
  • Volume II
• If Summer Don't (1921) IA
• If Winter Don't (1922) IA : PG

Individual short works

• "Rural simplicity" in English Illustrated, 1891-92
• '"Jadis"' (ss) Short Stories, 1892
• "The Pathos of the Commonplace" (ss) English Illustrated Magazine, 1893
• "Cynthia's Love Affairs" (ss) English Illustrated Magazine, 1893-1894

1. "Henry Silvester" (Dec 1893)
2. "The Twins" (1894)
3. "The Experiment" (1894)
4. "The Real One" (1894)
5. "The Thousand and the Boy" (1894)
6. "Too Late" (1894)

• "The Position Of Ephesus" (sketch) To-day magazine, 1894
• "The Faithful Fortnight" (ss) Short Stories magazine, 1894
• "The Kindness of the Celestial" (ss) Short Stories magazine, 1894
• "The Spoiling of Veronica" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1895
• "The Thirteenth Column" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1895
• "Very High Play," To-day magazine, November 1895
• "A Complete Recovery" (ss) The Illustrated English Magazine, 1895
• "The Long Snake; or, the Evils of Excess" To-day magazine, 1895
• "An Affair of the Heart" (1895-96, To-day) (ss)
• "Social Parallels" (1895-96, To-day)
• "Tot Sententlæ" To-day Magazine, 1896
• "The Victim of Apparatus" (sketch) To-day Magazine, 1896
• "Gloves" To-day Magazine, Apr 1896
• "The Church Militant" (ss) The Idlers magazine, Apr 1896
• "Lord Ornington" (ss) The Idler, Sep 1896
• "General Observations" (ss) The Idler, Dec 1896
• "The Story Of The Peacock" To-day Magazine, 1896
• "The Boy in the Book," To-day Magazine, 1896
• "The Millionaire's Telegram" Today 1896
• "My Objection to Callinson" Today 1896
• "The Failure of Professor Palbeck" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1896-97
• "Cheevers and the Love of Beauty" (ss) The Illustrated English Magazine, 1898-1899
• "The Unlucky Shilling" (ss) The Smart Set, 1900
• City Chronicles (1900—?, serialised in Windsor Magazine)
  • A Modern Sibyl
  • Greasewell's House Paints
  • The Code
  • In the Lock
  • Bluff
  • Fifteen per Cent
  • Soames v. Farshaw
  • Some Exploration Enterprise
  • "Unlikelies"
  • Ruined
  • The Fylmire Diamond
  • The Biting of the Biter
• "The Character-Changer" (ss) The Smart Set, 1901
• "The Millionaire" (ss) The Smart Set, 1901
• "Lovers on an Island" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1902-03
• Interzoos," Strand, 1903 (with J. A. Shepherd) (ss)
• Included in The Memoirs of Constantine Dix (1904)
  • "With a Clear Conscience" (ss) The Smart Set, Sep 1904
  • "The Rewards of Perseverance" (ss) The Smart Set, Nov 1904
• "The Street of Peace" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1904
• The Lone Hand" Grand Magazine, 1905 (3-part novella)
• "The Cheat" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1904-05
• "The Celestial's Editorship" (1904 Dec, Pall Mall) (ss)
• The Night of Glory" Grand Magazine, 1905 (ss)
• "The Gardener" (1905 Dec, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "The Girl with the Beautiful Hair" (1906-07, Windsor) (ss)
• "An Idyll of the Sea" (1906-07, Windsor) (ss)
• "The Rout" (1906-07, Windsor) (ss)
• "The Life of a Bubble" (1906 March, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "Aunt Martha" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1907
• "The Pavement Poet" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1907
• "The Lesson" (1908 Feb, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "A Doubtful Case" Windsor magazine, 1908-09
• "An Unfinished Game" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1909
• "The Secret of Discipline" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1909
• "Sara" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1909
• "Chrisimissima" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1909
• "A Vicious Circle" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1910
• "The 'Eighty-Seven" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1909
• "The Lady of the Pillar-Box" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1910
• "In the Marmalade" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1910
• ''Mon Abri' v. 'Mon Repos'' (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1913
• "A Stage on the Road" (1914, Windsor) ss
• "A Desperate Game" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1914
• "The Extermination" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1914
• "Eliza and the Special" (ss) in The Times Red Cross Story Book, 1915. By "Famous Novelists Serving in His Majesty's Forces"
• "A Wretched Imitation," Windsor magazine, 1915
• Celia and the Ghost" Strand, July 1916 (ss)
• "The Bet" (ss) Windsor magazine, 1919
• "The Window", 1920 (transcription project)
• "The Discovery of Nesting" (ss) Windsor magazine, July 1923(?)
• "A Model Man" (ss) The Short Stories of To-day, 1924 (ss)
• "The Second Delivery" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1924-25
• "Jilted" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1925
• "Yes and No" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1925

As Mrs. Barry Pain

• "Madame Solomon" (1898 Nov, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "The Slave of the Stove" (1899-1900, Windsor)(ss)
• "Woman Proposes" (1907 Feb, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "The Bridge Party: a Monologue" (1908 Jan, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "Lost Hearts" (1910 Dec, Pall Mall) (play)

Non-fiction

• "The Fauntleroy Boy" To-day magazine, 1895
• "The Managing Girl" (1895-96, To-day) (humor)
• "The Negro of Song" To-day Magazine, 1896
• "The Wrong Man" To-day Magazine, 1896
• "The Subject I Know Least About" Windsor Magazine, Vol 5, 1896-97 (by various authors)
  • I.—A Certain Man (by Barry Pain)
• Bad Temper (1905 April, May, Pall Mall) (non-fiction series)

1. "Back to the Nursery" April 1905
2. "Protection" May 1905
3. "Wonderful Value" June 1905
4. . "The Escape from Originality" July 1905

Verse

• "The Curick" The Idler magazine, vol 13, 1898
• "The Funeral of the Late Mrs. Hodgson" The Idler magazine, vol 13, 1898
• "At Hampstead" The Idler magazine, vol 13, 1898
• "Kismet" The Idler magazine, vol 13, 1898
• "The Kaiser and God", in A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917)
• "The Army of the Dead", in A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917)

Works about Pain

• "Pain, Barry," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)