Barry Eric Odell Pain (28 September 18645 May 1928) was an English journalist, poet, humorist and writer. Biography Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine'''s editor, James Payn, published his story "The Hundred Gates", and shortly afterwards Pain became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, and joined the staffs of the Daily Chronicle and Black and White. Pain supposedly "owes his discovery to Robert Louis Stevenson, who compares him to De Maupassant". From 1896 to 1928 he was a regular contributor to The Windsor Magazine. He died in Bushey, in Hertfordshire and is buried in Bushey churchyard. Pain's works include : In a Canadian Canoe (1891), papers reprinted from The Granta; Playthings and Parodies (1892); The Redemption of Gerald Rosecourt (Serialised, Illustrated London News, 1892); Stories And Interludes (1892); Graeme And Cyril (1893), published as 'Two' in United States; The Kindness of the Celestial (1894); The Octave of Claudius (1897); The Romantic History of Robin Hood (1898); Wilmay and Other Stories of Women (1898); Eliza (1900); Another English Woman's Love Letters (1901); Stories in the Dark (1901); De Omnibus, by the Conductor (1901); Nothing Serious (1901); The One Before (1902); Eliza's Husband (1903); Little Entertainments (1903); Three Fantasies (1904); Curiosities (1904); Deals (1904); Lindley Kays (1904); The Memoirs of Constantine Dix (1905); Robinson Crusoe's Return (1906); Wilhelmina in London (1906); The Shadow of the Unseen with James Blyth (1907); The Diary of a Baby (1907); The Luck of Norman Dale with James Blyth (1908); First Lessons in Story-writing (1908); Proofs Before Pulping (1909); The Gifted Family (1909); The Exiles of Faloo (1910); An Exchange of Souls (1911); Stories in Grey (1911); Here And Hereafter (1911); Eliza Getting On (1911); Stories Without Tears (1912); Exit Eliza (1912); Mr. Malding's Progress promotional story/booklet for Berlitz Schools of Languages (1912); Mrs Murphy (1913); The Mountain Apart (under the pseudonym James Prosper) (1913); Eliza's Son (1913); The New Gulliver (1913); One Kind And Another (1914); The Short Story (1914); Futurist Fifteen (1914); Edwards (1915); Me And Harris (1916); Collected Tales (1916); Confessions of Alphonse (1917); Innocent Amusements (1918); Says Mrs Hicks ( circa 1918); The Problem Club (1919); The Death of Maurice (1920); Marge Askinforit (1920); Going Home (1921) - a