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George Payne Rainsford James

Male : Historical Novelist & Historian
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1801 Date of Death : 1860 Age : 59
1828-1830
The Ruined City
(1828)
Adra, or the Peruvians; The Ruined City
(1829 Colburn)
Richelieu
(1829)
Darnley
(1830)
De l'Orme
(1830 Colburn & Bentley, London) - 3 vols. Anon
Lives of the Most Eminent Foreign Statesmen
(1830-8 Longman Rees et al : Lardner's Cabinet Library) - with E E Crowe

1831-1835
Philip Augustus
(1831)
The History of Charlemagne
(1832)
Henry Masterton
(1832)
Memoirs of Great Commanders
(1832)
Henry Masterton, or the Adventures of a Young Cavalier
(1832 Colburn & Bentley) - 3 vols. Anon
Mary of Burgundy
(1833)
Delaware, or the Ruined Family : A Tale
(1833 Edinburgh) - 3 vols
The Gipsy : A Tale
(1835 Longman Rees) - 3 vols
On the Educational Institutions of Germany
(1835)
One in a Thousand, or The Days of Henry Quatre
(1835 Longman Rees) - 3 vols. Anon

1836-1840
The Desultory Man
(1836 Baudry's European Library, Paris)
A History of the Life of Edward the Black Prince
(1836 Longman, Rees - London) - 2 vols
Memoirs of Celebrated Women
(1837 Bentley) - 2 vols
Attila : A Romance
(1837 Longman, Rees) - 3 vols
The Huguenot
(1838)
The Life and Times of Louis XIV
(1838)
The Robber : A Tale
(1838 Longman, Rees) - 3 vols in 2
Henry of Guise, or The Sates of Blois
(1839 Longman) - 3 vols
The Gentleman of the Old School
(1839 Harper NY) - 2 vols
A Brief History of the Uited States Boundary Question
(1839)
Charles Tyrrell or The Bitter Blood
(1839 Bentley) - 2 vols
Blanche of Navarre
(1839)
The Man at Arms
(1840)
The King's Highway : A Novel
(1840 Longmans, Orme) - 3 vols

1841-1845
Corse de Leon, or The Brigand
(1841 Harper NY) - 2 vols
The Ancien regime
(1841 Longman Brown)
(Ed) Letters Illustrative of the Reign of William III (1841)
Some Remarks on the Corn Laws
(1841)
Morley Einstein, or The Tenants of the Heart
(1842 Saunders & Otley) - 3 vols
A History of the Life of Richard Coeur-de-Lion
(1842-9)
A History of Chivalry
(1843)
Forest Days : A Romance of Old Times
(1843 Saunders & Otley) - 3 vols
The Commissioner, or De Lunatico Inquirendo
(1843 Wm Curry, Dublin) - Phiz. Anon
Agincourt
(1844)
Arabella Stuart
(1844)
The Smuggler : A Tale
(1845 Smith Elder) - 3 vols 2
Arrah Neil, or Times of Old
(1845 Smith Elder) - 3 vols in 2
The Stepmother : A Romance
(1845 Tauchnitz) - 2 vols in 1

1846-1850
Life of Henry IV, King of France and Navarre
(1847)
Russell : A Tale of the Reign of Charles II
(1847 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Caramalzaman
(1848)
The Last of the Fairies
(1848 Parry, London)
(Ed) Rizzio by W H Ireland (1849) (Ed) means of Relief from Taxation by R Heathfield (1849)
Dark Scenes of History
(1849)
The Forgery, or Best Intentions
(1849 T C Newby, London) - 3 vols
(1849 Sims & McIntyre)
An Investigation into the Murder of the Earl of Gowrie and Alexander Ruthven
(1849)

After 1851
Henry Smeaton
(1851)
An Oration on the Character & services of the Late Duke of Wellington
(1853 Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston)
Ticonderoga
(1854)
Prince Life, a Story for My Boy
(1856 T Cautley Newby, London)
The Cavalier
(1859 T B Peterson, Phila)

READING
S M Ellis : The Solitary Horseman, or The Life & Adventures of G P R James
(1927 Cayme Press, London) - 800

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