Barry Pain

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Barry (Eric Odell) Pain (1867-1928), English journalist, poet and writer, was educated at Cambridge and 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's works include In a Canadian Canoe (1891), papers reprinted from The Granta; Playthings and Parodies (1892); The Kindness of the Celestial (1894); The Octave of Claudius (1897); Eliza (1900); Another English Woman's Love Letters (1901); The Shadow of the Unseen (1907); An Exchange of Souls (1911); and others.

Eliza was serialised by BBC Radio 4 in 2006.

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.