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George Manville Fenn

Male : Novelist (over 100 works), esp of stories for boys. Married Susanna Leake in 1855. Friend of Henty
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Pimlico, London

Date of Birth : 1831 Date of Death : 1909 Age : 78

Other Work : Teacher. Editor of Cassell's Magazine 1867

Education : Battersea Training College for Teachers
1864-1870
Cabby
(1864 Virtue)
Hollowdell Grange
(1866 Routledge)
Fatherland, or How the Birds Live at Greenlawn
(1866 Griffith & Farran)
Original Penny Readings
(1866-7 Routledge) - 3 vols
Webs in the Way
(1867 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Christmas Penny Readings
(1867 Routledge)
Bent, Not Broken
(1867 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Mad
(1868 Tinsley) - 3 vols

1871-1880
By Birth a Lady
(1871 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Ocean Waif
(1871 Chapman & Hall)
The Sapphire Cross
(1871 Tinsley) - 3 vols
(Ed) The World of Wit and Humour (1871-2 Cassell) (1896 Cassell)
Midnight Webs
(1872 Tinsley)
(Ed) A Book of Fair Women (1873 Cassell)
Thereby Hangs a Tale
(1876 Tinsley) - 3 vols
A Little World
(1877 H S King) - 3 vols
Pretty Polly
(1878 Tinsley)
The Parson O'Dumford
(1879 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
The Clerk of Portwick
(1880 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Two Rough Stones and A Bad Day's Fishing
(c1880 Nister) - E Stewart
Off the the Wilds
(1880 Sampson Low)

1881-1883
The Vicar's People
(1881 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Adventures of Working Men
(1881 Cassell)
Eli's Children
(1881 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Friends I Have Made
(1881 Cassell)
In the King's Name, or the Lone Farm on the Veldt
(1882 Blackie) - Gordon Browne
In the King's Name, or The Cruise of the Kestrel
(1888 Blackie) - Gordon Browne
Nat the Naturalist : A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas
(1882 Blackie)
Poverty Corner
(1882 Cassell)
The New Mistress
(1883 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Dutch the Diver
(1883 Cassell)
My Patients
(1883 Cassell)
Middy and Ensign
(1883 Griffith & Farran)

1884-1885
Sweet Mace
(1884 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
The Golden Magnet : A Tale of the Land of the Incas
(1884 Blackie) - Gordon Browne
The Rosery Folk
(1884 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
The Silver Canon
(1884 Sampson Low)
Bunyip Land : The Story of a Wild Journey in New Guinea
(1885 Blackie) - Gordon Browne
The Dark House
(1885 Ward & Downey)
Eve at the Wheel
(1885 Ward & Downey)
Menhardoc : A Story of Cornish Nets and Mines
(1885 Blackie) - C J Staniland
A Terrible Coward, and Son Philip
(1885 Blackie)
Morgan's Horror
(1885 Cassell)

1886-1887
Brownsmith's Boy : A Romance in a Garden
(1886 Blackie) - Gordon Browne
Double Cunning
(1886 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Patience Wins or, War in the Works
(1886 Blackie)
The Master of the Ceremonies
(1886 Ward & Downey) - 3 vols
Devon Boys : A Tale of the North Shore
(1887 Blackie) (1905 Blackie) - Gordon Browne
Yussuf the Guide or, The Mountain Bandits - A Story of Strange Adventure in Asia Minor
(1887 Blackie) - J Schonberg
One Maid's Mischief
(1887 Ward & Downey) - 3 vols
In Marine Armour
(1887 SPCK. Pb)
The Bag of Diamonds
(1887 Ward & Downey)
In Jeopardy
(1887 Ward & Downey)
Lord John
(1887 SPCK Pb)
The Story of Antony Grace
(1887 Ward & Downey)

1888-1889
The Man with a Shadow
(1888 Ward & Downey) - 3 vols
Commodore Junk
(1888 Ward & Downey)
Dick o' the Fens : A Romance of the Great East Swamp
(1888 Blackie) - Frank Dadd
Mother Carey's Chicken : Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle
(1888 Blackie) -A Forestier
The Lass that loved a Soldier
(1889 Ward & Downey) - 3 vols
Quicksilver, or a Boy with No Skid to His Wheel
(1889 Blackie) - Frank Dadd
Crown & Sceptre : A West Country Story
(1889 SPCK) - J Nash
Of High Descent
(1889 Ward & Downey) - 3 vols
Three People's Secret
(1889 Simpkin)
Staunch
(1889 SPCK Pb)
Three Boys
(1889 Griffith & Farran)

1890
Black Blood
(1890 Ward & Downey)
Cutlass and Cudgel
(1890 Griffith & Farran)
The Crystal Hunters : A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
(1890 Partridge)
A Double Knot
(1890 Methuen) - 3 vols
A Fluttered Dovecote
(1890 Ward & Downey)
Lady Maude's Mania
(1890 Warne)
Mass' George
(1890 SPCK)
Mutiny of the Helen Gray
(1890 SPCK Pb)
The Mynns' Mystery
(1890 Warne)
Nolens Volens, The Adventures of Don Lavington, or In the Days of the Press Gang
(1890 Partridge) - Will Rainey
Princess Fedor's Pledge
(1890 Hutchinson) - ss

1891-1892
Sawn Off : A Tale of a Family Tree
(1891 Henry & Co, London)
Mahme Nousie
(1891 Hurst & Blackett) - 2 vols
Syd Belton
(1891 Methuen) - Gordon Browne
The Rajah of Dath
(1891 Chambers) - W S Stacey
To the West
(1891 SPCK)
Burr Junior : His Struggle and Studies at Old Browne's School
(1891 Griffith & Farran)
The Weathercock
(1892 Griffith & Farran)
The Dingo Boys, or The Squatters of Wallaby Range
(1892 Chambers) - W S Stacey
Gil the Gunner
(1892 SPCK)
The Grand Chaco : A Boy's Adventures in an Unknown Land
(1892 Partridge)
[Possibly also called Rob Harlow's Adventures ]

1893
King of the Castle
(1892 Ward & Downey) - 3 vols
Nurse Elisia
(1893 Hurst & Blackett) - 2 vols
A Sylvan Courtship
(1893 Badcock)
Witness to the Deed
(1893 Chatto & Windus - 3 vols
The Black Bar (1893 Sampson Low)
Begumbagh : A Tale of the Indian Mutiny & Other Stories
(1893 Chambers)
Blue Jackets
(1893 Griffith & Farran)
Sail Ho ! or, A Boy at Sea
(1893 SPCK)
Steve Young, or the Voyage of the Hvalross to the Icy Seas
(1893 Partridge)

1894
In an Alpine Valley
(1894 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols
The Star Gaxers
(1894 Methuen) - 3 vols
Real Gold : A Story of Adventure
(1894 Chambers) - W S Stacey
The White Virgin
(1894 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
Diamond Dyke, or the Lone Farm on the Veldt
(1894 Chambers) - W Boucher
The Tiger Lily
(1894 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
Fire Island
(1894 Sampson Low)
First in the Field
(1894 Partridge) - W Rainey
Life's Eclipse
(1894 SPCK)
The Vast Abyss : Being the Story of Tom Blount
(1894 SPCK)

1895-1896
An Electric Spark
(1895 Methuen)
Cormorant Crag : A Tale of the Smuggling Days
(1895 Partridge) - Will Rainey
Planter Jack, or The Cinnamon Garden
(1895 SPCK)
The Young Castellan : A Tale of the English Civil War
(1895 Phila, US)
The Queen's Scarlet
(1895 Cassell)
Sappers and Miners, or The Flood Beneath the Sea
(1896 F V White)
(nd. Partridge) - Hal Hurst
Roy Royland, or The Young Castellan
(1896 Chambers 5/-) - W Boucher
Jack at Sea, or All Work and No Play made him a Dull Boy
(1896 SPCK)
Cursed by a Fortune
(1896 F V White)
Captain Jack
(1896 Nister) - et al
The Black Tor
(1896 Chambers)
The Case of Ailsa Gray
(1896 F V White)
In Honour's Cause
(1896 Partridge)
In Battle and Breeze
(1896 Blackie) - with G A Henty & W Clark Russell
Smith's Weakness
(1896 SPCK)

1897-1898
Frank and Saxon
(1897 SPCK)
High Play
(1897 Downey)
The Little Skipper : A Son of a Sailor
(1897 Nister)
Vince the Rebel
(1897 Chambers)
Draw Swords
(1898 Chambers)
A Woman Worth Winning
(1898 Chatto & Windus)
Nic Revel
(1898 Chambers)
Our Soldier Boy
(1898 Nister)
The Silver Salvers : The Story of Treasure Found and Lost
(1898 SPCK)
Jungle and Stream, or the Adventures of Two Boys in Siam
(1898 Partridge)

1899-1900
Fix Bay'Nets !
(1899 Chambers)
A Crimson Crime
(1899 Chatto & Windus)
King O' the Beach : A Tropical Tale
(1899 Nister)
The Vibart Affair
(1899 Pearson)
Young Robin Hood
(1899 Nister)
Ned Leger : The Adventures of a Middy on the Spanish Main
(1899 SPCK)
In the Mahdi's Grasp
(1899 Partridge)
King Robert's Page
(1900 Nister)
Old Gold
(1900 Nister)
Uncle Bart : The Tale of a Tyrant
(1900 SPCK)
Charge !
(1900 Chambers)

1901-1902
A Dash from Diamond City
(1901 Nister)
The Canker Worm : Being Episodes of a Woman's Life
(1901 Chatto & Windus)
Ching, the Chinaman and His Middy Friends
(1901 SPCK) - W S Stacey
The King's Sons
(1901 Nister)
The Kopje Garrison : A Tale of the Boer War
(1901 Chambers) - W Boucher
Running Amok
(1901 Chatto & Windus)
Pulabad
(1901 Chapman & Hall)
Something Like a Snake
(1901 Warwick, Canada)
The Peril Finders
(1902 SPCK)
Stan Lynn : A Boy's Adventures in China
(1902 Chambers) - W H C Groome
Coatguard Jack
(1902 Nister)
A Meeting of Greeks and the Tug of War
(1902 Bousfield)
Black Shadows
(1902 Chatto & Windus)
The Rough Stones & A Bad Day's Fishing
(1902 Nister)
The Lost Middy
(1902 Nister)

1903-1904
A Young Hero
(1903 Nister) - A Webb
Fitz the Filibuster
(1903 SPCK)
The King's Esquires
(1903 Grant Richards)
Benjamin Franklin Stevens 1833-1902 : A Memoir
(1903 PP, London for Circulation)
Walsh the Wonder-Worker
(1903 Chambers)
Will of the Mill
(1903 Collins)
It Came to Pass
(1903 F V White)
Blind Policy
(1904 John Long)
The Khedive's Country : The Nile Valley & Its products
(1904 Cassell)
The Powder Monkey
(1904 Nister) - Ambrose Dudley
Glyn Severn's Schooldays
(1904 Chambers)
Coming Home to Roost
(1904 F V White)
Marcus, Young Centurion
(1904 Nister)
The Ocean Cat's Paw : The Story of a Strange Cruise
(1904 SPCK 5/-)
To Win or to Die : A Tale of the Klondyke Gold Craze
(1904 Partridge)

1905 Onwards
So Like a Woman
(1905 Chatto & Windus)
Nephew Jack : His Cruise for his Uncle's Craze
(1905 SPCK 5/-)
Shoulder Arms !
(1905 Chambers)
Trapper Dan : A Story of the Backwoods
(1905 Partridge)
Aynsley's Case
(1906 John Long)
Hunting the Skipper
(1906 SPCK)
Traitor's Gate
(1906 Digby & Long) - ss
Dead Man's Land , or The Adventures of Certain & Uncertain Whites and Blacks at Zimbambangwe,
the Ancient Home of Gold
(1906 Partridge)
'Tention ! : A Story of Boy-life during the Peninsula War
(1906 Chambers) - C M Sheldon
George Alfred Henty
(1907 Blackie)
A Country Squire
(1907 F V White)
Trapped by Malays : A Tale of Bayonet and Kris
(1907 Chambers) - Steven Spurrier
Sir Hilton's Sin
(1908 F V White)
Jack the Rascal
(1909 Everett)

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See also

Edith Nesbit
Ernest Nister