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The Works of Eleanor M. Ingram
Eleanor M. Ingram published widely in the popular pulp literary magazines of the day. While many of these have been scanned and put online, and we have tried to hunt down and personally document stories from magazines and issues that are not available on the internet in toto in our quest to recover her complete oeuvre, these .pdfs are hard to find and sometimes of very poor quality. Here we are slowly transcribing them so they can be read online, downloaded as text files, or pasted into an epub-creator. All of Eleanor M. Ingram's works are in the public domain.
Here you will find the stories we have done so far. In general, we preserve period punctuation and spelling, except in the case of obvious typos. We have also tried to proof-read rigorously. However, please send errors to the site maintainer: eleanor DOT m DOT archivist AT gmail DOT com.
Ruritanian Romance
This early, very dark short story seems to be set in the same unnamed-but-obviously-Russian-inspired Empire as The Game and the Candle, and the titular Emperor could be considered the father of Emperor Adrian (who would then appear to have named his son after his erstwhile favorite!).
Another little Ruritanian romance of cousinly love-loyalty, mistaken intentions, and a resolution that gives each cousin his proper bride without marring the perfection of their own devotion to each other.
A Ruritanian farce about three royal brothers, one of whom is willing to do just about anything to save his army officer (boy?)friend from disciplinary action by his older brother the king.
Historical Romance
A chilling little tale of a courtier of Louis XIV, and the harsh lesson given him about letting romance distract him from paying attention and attendance on his sovereign. Similar concerns to "I Am the Emperor".
A farcical vignette about three mustketeers who encounter a mysterious and alluring young woman at a country inn during the ascendency of Mazarin. Very Dumasian.
This novella of 20,000 words is an abduction/forced-marriage romance set in a romanticised Norman England c. 1300. In many ways, it is an "alternate-universe" version of Ingram's novel The Unafraid, with similar characters, plot, and some word-for-word identical scenes. It features such beloved Eleanor M. tropes as: chaste forced marriage; stern gray-eyed lord/cheerfully loyal subordinate; a castle strewn with exotic eastern luxuries.
Automobile Stories
One of Eleanor M.'s only stories entirely about working-class characters; Denis, a wry New York mechanician who considers himself in "exile" from the East Coast race circuit and its camraderie when he must stay in a midwestern city to support the widow of a man his car killed, has something in common with Jack Rupert of the Mercury novels (and in fact, the driver Denis used to race with is a recurring name in those novels as well).
Contemporary Romantic Fiction
A fascinating romantic vignette about a young woman who falls for a vaudville drag performer, believing him to be a woman.
When hard-nosed, rigidly upright second-generation self-made industrialist Mark Egerton is shot by a man he has fired for lying, he is saved and nursed back to health by the charming de Lauria siblings, who live with their Spanish father in genteel poverty. Romance blooms, and sets Mark Egerton on a collision course between his own pride of principle and old General de Lauria's pride in his family's ancient nobility. This novella of about 20,000 words also shows Eleanor M. Ingram's continued interest in "up to the minute" high-risk sports, with a key episode occurring at an aeroplane stunt show.