Humor Pain, Barry: Dumphry. v1. 01 Jan 2023

[GrannyGrump]

“Mr. Barry Pain excels in the delineation of humourous types, and ‘Dumphry’ is in his best manner. Mr. Ernest Dumphry is a worthy citizen, who is in business as a chartered accountant in the City, and dwells in a pleasant London suburban village. He firmly believes that he is master in the home, but Mrs. Dumphry and his daughters could — although they do not — tell him a different story. He is not one to be driven, but can be led with a minimum of guile. Mr. Dumphry is a man of wide, if sometimes misdirected, interests. […] Many of his enterprises lead to disillusionment, but he bears it with philosophic resignation, and the story of them makes capital reading.”
(—<i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>, 5 Nov 1927)

Luckily enough, quite a number of Dumphry’s ventures, although not ending as he had planned, fall into the “all’s well that ends well” category, so that he becomes the hero of the hour.

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Barry Eric Odell Pain (28 Sep. 1864 – 05 May 1928) was an English journalist, poet, humorist and writer. During his lifetime, he was perhaps best known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories, but now is also noted for his tales touched with fantasy, horror, and the supernatural. He also wrote stories of mystery and suspense. His humor has been characterized by some modern critics as “a surreal forerunner to Monty Python.”

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The Dumphry stories by Barry Pain (1864–1928) were first published in the Windsor Magazine, Apr. 1926 – Aug. 1927, produced in hardback in 1927. Illustrations by Warwick William Lendon (1883–1971) have been omitted due to copyright restrictions. This book is in the public domain where copyright is “Life+90” or less, and in the USA.
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