Surname: Payn Forename(s): Madeline b. July 1866. d. 4 April 1939. Nationality: English.
Poet. Born in Paddington, London. Father was the editor James Payn. Died unmarried
in Falmouth, Cornwall. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Payn’s “She Comes,” published on 30 September 1893, refers to her
as Miss M. Payn, of 43 Warrington Cres, Maida Vale (NLS Dep 341/370), which was her
family home. Biographical information: “Madeline Payn (1866-1939),” Ancestry. (AC)