Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, versifier and parodist. He was born in Cambridge and attended university there, editing the student paper Granta. He followed Jerome K Jerome as editor of To-day, a literary magazine, and wrote several short mystery stories. James Payn inserted his story "The Hundred Gates", in the Cornhill Magazine in 1889, and shortly afterwards he became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, and joined the staffs of the Daily Chronicle and Black and White. He served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War I.
Bibliography
In a Canadian Canoe (1891)
Stories and Interludes (1892)
Playthings and Parodies (1892)
Graeme and Cyril (1893)
The Kindness of the Celestial (1894)
The Octave of Claudius (1897)
Eliza (1900)
Stories in the Dark (1901)
The Memoirs of Constantin Dix (1905)
The Shadow of the Unseen (1907)
An Exchange of Souls (1911)
Stories Without Tears (1912)
One Kind and Another (1914)
Confessions of Alfonse (1917)
The Problem Club (1919)
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