Works
- Modern Men and Mummers (1921) which describes encounters with Francis Galton (whose great-great-great nephew he was)
- A Persian Critic (1923)
- The Whispering Gallery: Leaves from a Diplomat's Diary (1926) fictional diary, published as an anonymous hoax
- Iron Rations (1928) stories
- Doctor Darwin (1930) on Erasmus Darwin
- Ventilations: Being Biographical Asides (1930)
- The Fool of Love. A Life of William Hazlitt(1934)
- The Smith of Smiths, Being The Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith (1934)
- Common Misquotations (1934) editor
- Gilbert and Sullivan: A Biography (1935)
- The Swan of Lichfield: being a selection from the correspondence of Anna Seward (1936) editor
- Labby: The Life and Character of Henry Labouchere (1936)
- Tom Paine. Friend of Mankind: a Biography (1937)
- Thinking It Over (1938)
- Skye High: The Record of a Tour through Scotland in the Wake of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell (1938) with Hugh Kingsmill
- This Blessed Plot (1942)
- A Life of Shakespeare: With An Anthology of Shakespeare's Poetry (1942)
- Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality (1942) also G.B.S. A Full Length Portrait (US)
- Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (1943)
- Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)
- Talking of Dick Whittington (1947) with Hugh Kingsmill
- The Hero of Delhi (1948) on John Nicholson
- Dickens, his character, comedy, and career (1949)
- G.B.S. A Postscript (1950)
- The Last Actor-Managers (1950)
- Essays of Oscar Wilde (1950) editor
- Dizzy; the life and personality of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1951)
- The Man Whistler (1952)- (James McNeill Whistler)
- Walter Scott: His Life and Personality (1954)
- Beerbohm Tree: His Life & Laughter (1956)
- Gilbert: His Life and Strife (1957)- (W S Gilbert)
- Johnson and Boswell: the Story of Their Lives (1958)
- Merry Monarch, the Life and Likeness of Charles II (1960)
- The Pilgrim Daughters (1961) Marrying Americans (US)
- Lives of the Wits (1962)
- Henry of Navarre (1963)
- Hesketh Pearson, By Himself (1965) autobiography
- Extraordinary People (1965) biographical essays
- Charles II: His Life and Likeness
- About Kingsmill (Co-author with Malcolm Muggeridge - regarding Hugh Kingsmill)
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