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Jeffery Farnol
John Jeffery Farnol was born in Aston, Birmingham, England, UK, son of Kate Jeffery and Henry John Farnol, a factory-employed brass-founded. The marriage were to have three more children, two boys and a girl. He brought up in London and Kent. He attended the Westminster Art School, after he had lost his job in a Birmingham metal-working firm. In 1900, he married Blanche Wilhelmina Victoria Hawley (1883-1955), the 16 years daughter of the noted New York scenic artist H. Hughson Hawley; they moved to the United States, where he found work as a scene painter. The marriage had a daughter, Gillian. He returned to England around 1910, and settled in Eastbourne, Sussex. In 1938, he divorced and remarried with Phyllis Mary Clarke on 20 May, and adopted her daugther, Charmian Jane. On 9 August 1952, he died after a long battle with cancer at 73 in Eastbourne.
He published his firt romance novel My Lady Caprice in 1907. The success of his early novels led Farnol to become a professional writer. He produced around 40 novels and volumes of stories, and some non-fiction and children's books. His last book was completed by his second wife Phyllis. Two of his early books, The Amateur Gentleman and The Broad Highway, have been issued in a version edited by mediatic romance novelist Barbara Cartland.
Books in Order: 43 titles
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Great Britain at War
In publishing these collected articles in book form (the result of my visits to Flanders, the battlefields of France and divers of the great munition centres), some of which have already appeared in the press both in England and America, I do so with...
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Murder by Nail // Valley of Night
Being an episode in the career of Jasper Shrig of Bow Street with particulars of his highly original methods in the Wrybook case....
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The Lonely Road
In the lonely road, Mr. Jeffery Farnol tells a stirring tale of pursuits and escape in the troubled times following the breakdown of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. Jason Wayne fleeing from the red-coats, seeks refuge among the woodlands and valleys ...
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A Pageant of Victory
This story opens in Virginia in 1774, at the moment when resentment at King George's treatment of the America Colonies and anger at Gaye's misguided high-handedness in Massachusetts and particularly in Boston, are blazing up to rebellion. George C...
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Winds of Chance // Winds of Fortune
This is an adventure story of pirates and kidnapping on the high seas and Spanish America. Narrated by Ursula Revell, 23 years of age, her hero is the Captain Japhet....
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Voices from the Dust
Being romances of old London and of that which never dies. The Good lives on eternally. Only the baser thing can die....
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The Jade of Destiny
The Captain gave his battered hat the true swashbuckling cock, cast his ragged cloak about him with superb, braggadocio flourish, clashed his rusty spurs and bowed....
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Over the Hills
A romance of the fifteen, being the narrative of Adam (called Thursday) with particulars of his adventures, his joys and sorrows, his friends and right-beloved enemy....
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Another Day
This narrative should begin with the death-sob of Red Rory as the murderous bullet smote him from life; it should continue with the sick awaking of young Keith, Dallas, Chisholm in a certain evil haunt of Hell's Kitchen, New York City, to find himsel...
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Gyfford of Weare
Sir Richard Guyfford of Weare is accused of the murder of his double-dealing cousin....
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The Quest of Youth
This time the reader is thrilled with the story of Sir Marmaduke Vane-Temperly, who, a weary man of the world, goes fourth to seek his vanished youth. Of the many adventures that befall him, a mysterious murder, is but one. Again the author, with a m...
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The Loring Mystery
The clock of St. Clement Danes was chiming the hour of eleven as Mr.Gillespie, folding up the brief which had engaged his attention all theevening, yawned, drained the last of his toddy and rose to betakehimself to bed; indeed he had just taken up hi...
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Peregrine's Progress // Diana of the Dawn
He who hath Imagination is blessed or cursed with a fearful magic whereby he may scale the heights of Heaven or plumb the deeps of Hell. "I went at a good, round pace, being determined to cover as much distance as possible ere dawn, since I felt a...
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Martin Conisby's Vengeance
And now, nothing heeding my defenceless situation and the further horrors that might be mine aboard this accursed pirate ship, I nevertheless knew great content for that, with every plunge and roll of the vessel, I was so much the nearer Nombre de Di...
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Black Bartlemy's Treasure
Martine Conisby, Lord Wendover, enraged by his five years of slavery on a Spanish galleon escapes during a sea fight. He is rescued by an English ship. Lord Wendover is determined to avenge this wrong. He returns to England disguised as a tramp just ...
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The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
"Long, long ago when castles grim did frown, When massy wall and gate did ''fend each town; When mighty lords in armour bright were seen, And stealthy outlaws lurked amid the green And oft were hanged for poaching of the deer, Or, gasping, died upon ...
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Our Admirable Betty
"The Major, mam, the Major has a truly wonderful 'ead!" said Sergeant Zebedee Tring as he stood, hammer in hand, very neat and precise from broad shoe buckles to smart curled wig that offset his square, bronzed face. "Head, Sergeant, head!" retorted...
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Beltane the Smith
A mighty man was Beltane the Smith, despite his youth already great of stature and comely of feature. Much knew he of woodcraft, of the growth of herb and tree and flower, of beast and bird, and how to tell each by its cry or song or flight; he knew ...
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The Amateur Gentleman
This is a story of adventure, daring and love. And who could be more entrancing than the gloriously beautiful, proud, unpredictable heroine? But I lost my heart to handsome, brave, honest Barnabas. I know you too will adore the man who thought he had...
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The Honourable Mr. Tawnish
A fashionable London gentleman, Horatio Tawnish seeks the hand of the daughter of Sir John Chester, who has nothing but disdain for Mr. Tawnish. Tawnish must overcome his reputation as an effeminate dandy if he is to win the woman he loves....
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The Money Moon
When Sylvia Marchmont went to Europe, George Bellew being, at the same time, desirous of testing his newest acquired yacht, followed her, and mutual friends in New York, Newport, and elsewhere, confidently awaited news of their engagement. Great, the...
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The Broad Highway
This is Romance with a capital R. The Broad Highway has romantic language, passionate characters, and swashbuckling adventures on the open road. Classic characters include the hero and his lady, the Tinker, the Ancient, and Black George, the smith. F...
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My Lady Caprice // The Chronicles of the Imp
I sat fishing. I had not caught anything, of course-I rarely do, nor am I fond of fishing in the very smallest degree, but I fished assiduously all the same, because circumstances demanded it. It had all come about through Lady Warburton, Lisbeth's m...