Male : Novelist, Poet & Playwright. Married Florence Wykes in 1901. He was hugely successful. His play "Lights O'London", first performed in 1881, was said to have earned him £72,000 by 1894

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1847 Date of Death : 1922 Age : 75

Pseudonyms : Dagonet

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Hanwell Military College & Bonn University

1879-1880
The Dagonet Ballads (1879 E J Francis)
[Sold over 100,000 copies in the first year]
Ballads of Babylon (1880 Fuller)
Zeph : & Other stories (1880 Fuller) - ss
The Social Kaleidoscope
(1880 Fuller) - ss
Three Brass Balls (1880 Fuller)

1881-1890
The Theatre of Life (1881 Fuller)
Ballads and Poems (1883 Fuller)
The Lifeboat & other Poems (1883 Fuller)
How the Poor Live (1883 Chatto & Windus)
Stories in Black and White (1885 Fuller) - ss
Rogues and Vagabonds (1885 C & W)
The Ring O'Bells (1886 C & W) - ss
Marie Jane's Memoirs (1887 C & W)
Mary Jane Married (1888 C & W)
The Dagonet Reciter and Reader (1888 Chatto & Windus)
The Land of God & Other Poems (1888 Fuller)
Tales of Today (1889 C & W) - ss
How the Poor Live, and Horrible London (1889 C & W)
Dramas of Life (1890 C & W) - ss
The Case of George Candlemas (1890 C & W)
A Bunch of Primroses (1890 Raphael Tuck)
Nellie's Prayer (1890 RT)

1891-1900
Dagonet Ditties (1891 C & W)
Tinkeltop's Crime (1891 C & W) - ss
Memoirs of a Mother-in-Law (1892 George Newnes)
In the Harbour (1892 Hildsheimer & Faulkner)
Memoirs of a Landlady (1894 C & W)
My Two Wives (1894 C & W) - ss
Dagonet on Our Islands (1894 T F Unwin)
Dagonet Abroad (1895 C & W)
Scenes from the Show (1895 C & W) - ss
The Ten Commandments (1896 C & W) - ss
As it Was in the Beginning (1896 F V White) - ss
Dorcas Dene, Detective : Her Adventures (1897 F V White)
The Coachman's Club (1897 White)
Dagonet 'Dramas of the Day' (1898 C & W) - ss
Once Upon a Christmas Time (1898 C & W) - ss
The Small Part Lady (1900 C & W) - ss
In London's Heart (1900 C & W)
Without the Limelight (1900 C & W)

1901-1910
A Blind Marriage (1901 C & W) - ss
Living London : Its Work and Its Play (1901 Cassell) - 3 vols
Biographs of Babylon (1902 C & W)
Nat Harlowe, Mountebank (1902 Cassell)
The Dagonet & other Poems (1903 Routledge)
The Life we Live (1904 C & W) - ss
Young Mrs Caudle (1904 C & W)
Among my Autographs (1904 C & W)
Two King's Padons : The Martyrdom of Adolph Beck (1904 Daily Mail)
Li Ting of London (1905 C & W) - ss
Two London Fairies (1906 Greening)
For Life - And After (1906 C & W)
London By Night (1906 Greening)
The Mysteries of Modern London (1906 C Arthur Pearson)
The Black Stain (1907 Jarrold)
His Wife's Revenge (1907 C & W)
The Mystery of Mary Anne (1907 C & W) - ss
Watches of the Night (1907 Greening)
The Devil in London (1908 Stanley Paul)
Joyce Pleasantry & other Stories (1908 C & W) - ss
The Death Gamble (1909 Stanley Paul)
The Cabinet Minster's Wife (1910 S Paul) - ss

1911 Onwards
Off the Track in London (1911 Jarrold)
Behind the Veil (1913 Greening)
The Bluebeard of the Bath (1915 C A Pearson)
Anna of the Underworld (1916 C & W)
My Life : Sixty Years' Recollections of Bohemian London (1917 Eveleigh Nash)
Glances Back (1917 Jarrolds)
Prepare to Shed them Now : The Ballads of George R Sims (1968 Hutchinson)