JAMES PAYN BIOGRAPHY

PAYN, JAMES (1830-1898). —Novelist, s. of an official in the Thames Commission, ed. at Eton, Woolwich, and Camb. He was a regular contributor to Household Words and to Chambers's Journal , of which he was ed. 1859-74, and in which several of his works first appeared; he also ed. the Cornhill Magazine 1883-96. Among his novels—upwards of 60 in number—may be mentioned Lost Sir Massingberd , The Best of Husbands , Walter's Word , By Proxy (1878), A Woman's Vengeance , Carlyon's Year , Thicker than Water , A Trying Patient , etc. He also wrote a book of poems and a volume of literary reminiscences.