Bracebridge Hemyng (1841–1901)

Incredibly cliche and yet still compelling at times. You have our perfect hero, great at everything, the love interest and the rival. An the evil english lord with his even more evil foreign servant. Also a couple of comedy relief chapters and various silly coincidences.
Yet i still nearly gave it 3 stars, mostly due to its unusual structure. It actually tells the story from multiple points of view and we even get a fair bit of time with the villains.
Its also a very easy read, the 19th century equivalent to airport literature.… (mere)

History of Financial Advice Collection. A hack novelist who had achieved some fame in the US as a writer of boys’ stories, Bracebridge Heymyng returned to London in the early 1880s and produced this collection of “sensational tales of the Stock Exchange” in conjunction with the outside stockbroker John Shaw. Shaw had built his business on blanket press advertising, and formed this partnership with Hemyng as an innovative form of publicity. The stories give an insight into the culture of stock market speculation in late Victorian London. Most of them revolve around the ticker tape, sending prices from the London Stock Exchange to brokers’ offices, which was becoming a defining feature of the speculative landscape of the 1880s. Though the stories generally aim to convey the excitement produced by tape-watching (e.g. “The Hypochondriac”), they also point out the addictive qualities ("Time and Tide Wait for No Man”). Interestingly, some reviews interpreted the stories as a form of warning: in them, “rogues are exposed, schemes laid to embroil the unwary detected, pitfalls besetting even the experienced men of business in regions of finance pointed out.” In 1894, Hemyng produced a novel—A Stock Exchange Romance—in conjunction with another outside broker, George Gregory.… (mere)