Author:Leonard Merrick

Leonard Merrick
(1864–1939)

Leonard Merrick

Works

Novels

• The Position of Peggy Harper (1911) (external scan)

• Mr Bazalgette's Agent (1888)
• Violet Moses (1891)
• The Man Who Was Good (1892) (external scan)
• Cynthia (1896) (external scan)
• A Daughter of the Philistines (1897) (external scan)
• One Man's View (1897) (external scan)
• The Actor-Manager (1898) (external scan)
• The Worldlings (1900) (external scan)
• Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1903) (external scan)
• The Quaint Companions (1903) (external scan)
• The House of Lynch (1907) (external scan)
• Lynch's Daughter (1908)
• When Love Flies Out the Window (1914) (external scan)

Short stories and collections

• This Stage of Fools (1896) (external scan)
• Whispers About Women (1906) (external scan)
• The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories (1908)
  • The Man Who Understood Women — A Very Good Thing for the Girl — The Woman Who Wished to Die — Frankenstein II — The Tale that Wouldn't Do — The Laurels and the Lady — The Child in the Garden — A Letter to the Duchess — The Prince in the Fairy Tale — With Intent to Defraud — Dead Violets — The Favourite Plot — Time, the Humorist — The Back of Bohemia — The Lady of Lyons' — The Third M — The Bishop's Comedy — A Reverie — The Reconciliation — The Call from the Past
• While Paris Laughed (1918) (external scan)
• A Chair on the Boulevard (1919) (external scan)
• To Tell You the Truth (1922) (external scan)
• The Call from the Past and Other Stories (1924) (external scan)

Individual short stories

• "'A Weak Imitation'" (1894, English Illustrated) (ss)
• "Aribaud's Two Wives," (1913 Apr, McClure's)
• "The Attack in the Rue de la Presse" (1906 Apr, Metropolitan)
• "Dead Violets," (1906, Metropolitan Magazine) [Included in The Man who Understood Women (1908)]
• "The Doll in the Pink Silk Dress" (1909, The Saturday Evening Post)
• "The Elegant de Fronsac" (1913, McClure's)
• "Fluffums" (1896, English Illustrated)
• "A Letter to the Duchess," (1906, Metropolitan Magazine) [Included in The Man who Understood Women (1908)]
• "A Millionaire's Romance" (McClure's 1913 June)
• "The Propriety of Pauline," (1906, Metropolitan Magazine)
• "The Suicides in the Rue des Vents" (1906 June, Metropolitan)
• "A Very Good Thing For the Girl" (1903-1904, English Illustrated)
• "The Woman in Marble," (1913 July, McClure's)

Plays

• The Free Pardon, with F. C. Philips
• When the Lamps are Lighted
• My Innocent Boy
• The Elixir of Youth
• A Woman in the Case written with George R. Sims