Paul Hardy (illustrator)

The authors whose work Hardy illustrated include the following (based on the list provided by Kirkpatrick):[8]

• William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 – 1882), an English poet and historical novelist who published nearly 40 novels and wrote juvenile fiction for magazines.
• Jane Austen (1775 – 1817), an English novelist known primarily for Pride and Prejudice and her five other major novels that have hardly ever been out of print since first published.
• R. M. Ballantyne (1825 – 1894), a prolific Scottish author of juvenile fiction and an accomplished water-colourist.
• Honoré de Balzac (1799 – 1850), a French playwright and novelist who is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature
• George Borrow (1903 – 1881), an English writer of travel books and novels. The Romani people feature strongly in his works
• Sheila E. Braine (1867 – ), Shiela Emma Braine, an English journalist, song-writer, and author of books for young children.[9]
• F. S. Brereton (1872 – 1957), who wrote tales of Imperial heroism for children.
• Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855), a poet and novelist and the eldest of the three Bronte Sisters.
• John Byron (1723 – 1786), a British Royal Navy officer and explorer. He wrote about his experience of shipwreck.
• Jennie Chappell (1857 – ), a prolific author of fiction, accounts of women in the work-place, and juvenile fiction[10]
• Maria Louisa Charlesworth (1819 – 1880), an English author of religious books for children and religious tracts.
• Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889), an English playwright, short -story writer and novelist best remembered for The Lady in White and The Moonstone
• Hendrik Conscience (1812 – 1883), a Belgian novelist who published over one hundred novels, and is best known for his romantic nationalist novels
• Susan Coolidge (1835 – 1905), Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, an American author of juvenile fiction including What Katy Did
• Darley Dale (1848 – 1931), Francesca Maria Steele, an English novelist who wrote both non-fiction under her own name and fiction under the pseudonym Darley Dale[11]
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930), a British writer and medical doctor, now best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes
• Mrs Henry Dudeney (1866 – 1945), Alice Louisa Dudeney (née Whiffin), an English writer who published over fifty volumes of fiction.
• Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870), a French writer best known now for such titles as The Three Musketeers
• Mary Ellen Edwards (1862 – 1908), a British painter and illustrator who drew for young children. Also known a Mrs Freer, and by her married name Mrs. John C. Staples[note 1][12]
• Evelyn Everett-Green (1856 – 1932), who moved from pious stores for children, through historical romances, to adult romances under a range of pseudonyms.
• George Manville Fenn (1831 – 1909), a prolific author of fiction for young adults.
• Henry Frith (1840 – 1917), a prolific Irish author and translator for many of Jules Verne's novels.
• Bret Harte (1836 – 1902), an American short-story writer and poet.
• G. A. Henty (1832 – 1902), a prolific writer of boy's adventure fiction, often set in a historical context, who had himself served in the military and been a war correspondent.
• Thomas Hughes (1822 – 1926), an English lawyer, judge, politician, and author, now best remembered for semi-autobiographical Tom Brown's School Days (1857)
• Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885), A French poet, dramatist, and novelist, who is now best remembered for Les Misérables, (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)
• Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859), James Henry Leigh Hunt, an English poet, critic, editor, and essayist
• Raymond Jacberns
• Henry St John (1869 – 1926), Charles Henry St John Cooper, a prolific English author of juvenile fiction for both boys (as Henry St John) and girls (as Mabel St John) among other pseudonyms.[13]
• David Ker (1841 – 1914), an English journalist, traveller, soldier, and author of juvenile fiction, who based the action in his stories on his own hair-raising experiences.
• Henry Kingsley (1830 – 1876), an English novelist, editor, and war correspondent, a brother to Charles Kingsley.
• W. H. G. Kingston (1814 – 1880), who wrote boy's adventure fiction.
• Robert Leighton (1858 – 1934), a Scottish journalist, editor, and a prolific author of juvenile fiction and non-ficiton books about dogs and their care.
• Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803 – 1873), Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, an English politician and Writer who first used the opening line It was a dark and stormy night.
• Bessie Marchant (1862 – 1941), who wrote adventure fiction featuring young female heroines, sometimes used the pseudonym Bessie Comfort.
• Frederick Marryat (1792 – 1848), a Royal Navy officer who wrote adventure books for children.
• Dorothea Moore (1881 – 1993), an English actress, wartime nurse's aide, and the author of more than sixty works of juvenile fiction including both historical fiction and school stories.[14]
• Georgina Norway (1833 – 1915), who wrote adventure fiction for children as "G. Norway".
• D. H. Parry (1868 – 1950), David Harold Parry, who also wrote as Morton Pike and Captain Eilton Blacke, a prolific English writer of serial stories and other juvenile fiction, wrote for Chums from 1892 to 1935, from a family of painters and a painter himself, was an expert on the Napoleonic Wars.[15]
• Mary E. Ropes (1842 – ), Mary Emily Ropes
• Walter Scott (1771 – 1832), the Scottish historical novelist, poet, and historian who wrote Ivanhoe.
• Gordon Stables (1840 – 1910), a Scottish medical doctor in the Royal Navywho wrote boys' adventure fiction.
• Grace Stebbing (1840 – 1936), a prolific author of moral tales for boys and girls as well as historical romances and biographies. She wrote her first book aged 7 and her last one at 91, with 89 books in total as well as numerous short stories.[16][17]
• Samuel Walkey (1871 – 1953), a Cornish senior bank official who turned to writing boys stories to occupy him while travelling for work.[18]
• May Wynne (1875 – 1949), a prolific author of formulaic juvenile fiction, mostly animal and school stories who also wrote some adult historical fiction, with nearly 200 books in total.

Rogues of the Fiery Cross was Samuel Walkey's (10 July 1871 – 29 March 19)[19][20] second serial novel. It appeared in Chums in the 1896 – 1897 volume and it was a huge success. It was illustrated by Hardy, as was almost all of Walkey's subsequent work in Chums.[18] After appearing in Chums Rogues was almost immediately published as a book by Cassell & Co., London in 1897 with sixteen full-page illustrations, as shown below:

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  I caught him by the collar
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  One caught me roughly by the throat
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  He drew a knife
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  His sword came swinging down
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  Turn over- he cried
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  A ship lay in the lagoon
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  The two hurtled up and down
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  He wore a ceaseless grin
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  They burst up the stairs
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  He drew a pistol and pulled the trigger
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  He flung his rapier round and round
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  He stabbed the second man
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  The Dutchman fought with desperate fury
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  The heavy wood dropped backwards
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  My fathers hands were tight upon his throat
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  The ship came nearer and nearer