George Manville fenn

(1831-1909)


 
 
 

Lincolnshire Dialect



DING 2012: “Prolific writer of boys’ stories. He worked for several years at Alford, Lincolnshire.”


Not in Leclaire


Works


Dick o’ the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp. With illustrations by Frank Dadd. 1888. London: Blackie & Sons. SC. EDD.

A Cure of Souls. 1889. Christmas issue of Good Words. London: Isbister and CO. EDD.


KingKong Project


George Manville FENN (M: 1831 Jan 3 - 1909 Aug 26)

(&ps: G M F)

                  'Cabby' [n|1864]

24918        Hollowdell Grange [f|1866]

21310,i      Featherland [1866]

         Original Penny Readings [1866]

         Webs In The Way [f|1867]

         Bent, Not Broken [f|1867]

                  Christmas Penny Readings [1867]

         Mad [f|1868]

         By Birth A Lady [f|1871]

         The Sapphire Cross [f|1871]

         The World Of Wit And Humour (ps: G M F) (ed) [1871]

         Midnight Webs [1872]

         A Book Of Fair Women (ps: G M F) (ed) [1872]

         That Little Frenchman [f|1874]

         The Blue Dragoons [1875]

         Thereby Hangs A Tale [f|1876]

         A Little World [f|1877]

         Pretty Polly [f|1878]

21304,iBegumbagh [s|1879]

         The Parson O' Dumford [f|1879]

23375,iJack At Sea [f|c1880]

         The Clerk Of Portwick [f|1880]

21301,iBunyip Land [f|1880]

21359,iOff To The Wilds [f|1880]

21303,iDevon Boys [f|1880]

         Friends I Have Made [1881]

         The Vicar's People [f|1881]

         Adventures Of Working-Men [s|1881]

         Eli's Children [f|1882]

21355,iMiddy And Ensign [f|1883]

         My Patients [1883]

         Dutch The Diver [f|1883]

21356,iNat The Naturalist [f|1883]

21382,iSon Philip [f|1883]

         The New Mistress [f|1883]

23497,iThrough Forest And Stream [f|c1884]

         Sweet Mace [f|1884]

21368,iThe Silver Cañon [f|1884]

24909,iThe Golden Magnet [f|1884]

         The Rosery Folk [f|1884]

21354,iMenhardoc [f|1885]

21306,iDick O' The Fens [f|1885]

21381,iA Terrible Coward [f|1885]

25637The Dark House [f|1885]

         Some Stained Pages [f|1885]

23502,iThe New Forest Spy [f|c1885]

         Morgan's Horror [f|1885]

         Eve At The Wheel [f|1885]

         The Master Of The Ceremonies [f|1886]

         The Chaplain's Craze [f|1886]

         Double Cunning [f|1886]

21293,iBrownsmith's Boy [f|1886]

21361,iPatience Wins [f|1886]

21378,iYussuf The Guide [f|1887]

24871The Bag Of Diamonds [f|1887]

         One Maid's Mischief [f|1887]

         This Man's Wife [f|1887]

         The Man With A Shadow [f|1888]

         The Story Of Antony Grace, Or, Some Stained Pages [f|1887]

21363,iQuicksilver [f|1888]

         Commodore Junk [f|1888]

21296,iMother Carey's Chicken [f|1888]

         In The Wilds Of New Mexico [1888]

         Of High Descent [f|1889]

         The Lass That Loved A Soldier [f|1889]

         Three People's Secret [f|1889]

         In Jeopardy.. [s|1889]

21319,iThree Boys [f|1889]

23386,iIn The King's Name [f|1890]

         Lady Maude's Mania [f|1890]

         The Mynns' Mystery [f|1890]

         A Double Knot [f|1890]

21295,iCormorant Crag [f|1890]

         A Fluttered Dovecote [f|1890]

21376,iWill Of The Mill [f|1890]

21316,iThe Adventures Of Don Lavington [f|1890]

21297,iCutlass And Cudgel [f|1890]

21320,iMass' George [f|1890]

21302,iCharge! [f|1890]

24516,iThe Crystal Hunters [f|1891]

21294,iBurr Junior [f|1891]

21364,iThe Rajah Of Dah [f|1891]

21495,iTo The West [f|1891]

         Sawn Off [s|1891]

         Mahme Nousie [f|1891]

         Princess Fédor's Pledge.. [s|1891]

21373,iSyd Belton [f|1891]

21375,iThe Weathercock [f|1892]

         King Of The Castle [f|1892]

         The Grand Chaco [f|1892]

23374,iThe Dingo Boys [f|1892]

21311,iGil The Gunner [f|1892]

25607Witness To The Deed [f|1893]

         A Sylvan Courtship [f|1893]

         Nurse Elisia [f|1893]

21366,iSail-Ho! [f|1893]

21372,iSteve Young [f|1893]

21326,iThe Black Bar [f|1893]

21299,iBlue Jackets [f|1893]

         The Star-Gazers [f|1894]

         The White Virgin [f|1894]

         Real Gold [f|1894]

         The Vast Abyss [f|1894]

21317,iA Life's Eclipse [f|1894]

         The Tiger Lily [f|1894]

21308,iFirst In The Field [f|1894]

21307,iFire Island [f|1894]

         In An Alpine Valley [f|1894]

         An Electric Spark [f|1895]

24813The Queen's Scarlet [f|1895]

         Planter Jack [f|1895]

         Cursed By A Fortune [f|1896]

         The Case Of Ailsa Gray [f|1896]

21313,iIn Honour's Cause [f|1896]

         Smith's Weakness [f|1896]

         Captain Jack [f|1896]

25449Roy Royland (aka: The Young Castellan) [f|1896]

21298,iThe Black Tor [f|1896]

21367,iSappers And Miners [f|1896]

         High Play [1897]

         Frank And Saxon [f|1897]

20544The Little Skipper [f|1897]

         Vince The Rebel [f|1897]

21371,iOur Soldier Boy [f|1898]

         The Silver Salvors [f|1898]

i         Jungle And Stream [f|1898]

         Tales Of Peril And Heroism [s|1898]

21357,iNic Revel [f|1898]

         A Woman Worth Winning [f|1898]

         Draw Swords! [f|1898]

24926,iIn The Mahdi's Grasp [f|1899]

         The Vibart Affair [f|1899]

         A Crimson Crime [f|1899]

         Ned Ledger [f|1899]

27908Fix Bay'nets! [f|1899]

21314,iKing O' The Beach [f|1899]

11097Young Robin Hood [f|1899]

         The Balloon (w James Henry DARNLEY) [d|pub:1899]

         The Barrister (w James Henry DARNLEY) [d|pub:1899]

21380,iA Young Hero [f|1900]

         King Robert's Page [f|1900]

         Uncle Bart [f|1900]

21360,iOld Gold [f|1900]

         The Ocean Waif [f|1900]

21315,iThe King's Sons [f|1900]

21318,iThe Lost Middy [f|1900]

21362,iThe Powder Monkey [f|1900]

27897The Kopje Garrison [f|1901]

         The Cankerworm [f|1901]

         Pulabad [f|1901]

21305,iA Dash From Diamond City [f|1901]

         Something Like A Snake [f|1901]

         Running Amok [f|1901]

         Ching, The Chinaman, And His Middy Friends [f|1901]

         Coastguard Jack [f|1902]

25429The Peril Finders [f|1902]

         Two Rough Stones; and, A Bad Day's Fishing [s|1902]

         Black Shadows [f|1902]

         Stan Lynn [f|1902]

         A Meeting Of Greeks And The Tug Of War [s|1902]

21292,iBrave And True.. (w others) [s|1902]

         Walsh The Wonder-Worker [f|1903]

         Memoir Of B F Stevens [b|1903]

         It Came To Pass [f|1903]

21309,iFitz The Filibuster [f|1903]

23128,iThe King's Esquires [f|1903]

         Coming Home To Roost [f|1904]

21358,iThe Ocean Cat's Paw [f|1904]

21365,iRob Harlow's Adventures [f|1904]

21312,iGlyn Severn's School-days [f|1904]

21379,iMarcus, The Young Centurion [f|1904]

         The Khedive's Country [1904]

         Blind Policy [f|1904]

21377,iTo Win Or To Die [f|1904]

         Trapper Dan [f|1905]

         Nephew Jack [f|1905]

         So Like A Woman [f|1905]

         Shoulder Arms! [f|1905]

         Little People's Book Of Wild Animals [1905]

21374,i'Tention! [f|1906]

27907Hunting The Skipper [f|1906]

23922Dead Man's Land [f|1906]

         Aynsley's Case [f|1906]

         Happy Playmates [1906]

         The Traitor's Gait.. [s|1906]

         George Alfred Henty [b|1907]

         The Country Squire [f|1907]

21494,iTrapped By Malays [f|1907]

         Sir Hilton's Sin [f|1908]

         Jack, The Rascal [f|1909]

         In Mid-Air [f|1924]

         In Marine Armour [f|1927]

         Staunch As Steel [f|1927]

         Poverty Corner ('A Little World') [f|?]

23382,iCrown And Sceptre [f|?]

24821Diamond Dyke [f|?]


For further information about his life and works, see:


Boulger, G. S. 2004.  “Fenn, George Manville (1831–1909), rev. Guy Arnold, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: OUP.


http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33105

Ford, Eric. 1999. "A Forgotten Victorian Author And The Society He Knew - George Manville Fenn - Critical Essay". Contemporary Review. (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1604_275/ai_56750244/?tag=content;col1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Manville_Fenn

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86900458


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