The Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat

The Children of the New Forest by Captain Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to sea several times, he was permitted to enter the Royal Navy in 1806, as a midshipman on board HMS Imperieuse. In 1829 he was commanding the frigate HMS Ariadne on a mission to search for shoals around the Madeira and Canary Islands. This was an uninspiring exercise, and between that and the recent publication of his first novel, The Naval Officer (1829) he decided to resign his commission and take up writing full time. Other works include The King's Own (1830), Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service (1832), Peter Simple, and The Three Cutters (1834), Jacob Faithful (1834), The Pacha of Many Tales (1835), Japhet, in Search of a Father (1836), The Pirate (1836), The Phantom Ship (1839), Poor Jack (1840), Masterman Ready (1841), Percival Keene (1842), The Privateersman (1846) and The Mission; or, Scenes in Africa (1845).

Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 – August 9, 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and Charles Dickens' contemporary and acquaintance. He is remembered today as an early pioneer of the sea narrative. He is most known for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children's book The Children of the New Forest, as well as for inventing a widely used nautical flag signaling system. Marryat was the editor of The Metropolitan Magazine from 1832 to 1835. He continued to write novels, the most famous of which being Mr Midshipman Easy, published in 1836. He spent a year in Brussels, then traveled across Canada and the United States before settling in London in 1839, where he became acquainted with Charles Dickens and others in the literary world.

He was in North America in 1837 when the Lower Canadian Rebellion erupted, and he assisted British soldiers in defeating it. In appreciation of his invention and other accomplishments, he was appointed a Member of the Royal Society. He relocated to a tiny farm in Manor Cottage, Norfolk, in 1843, and died there in 1848. Florence Marryat, his daughter, went on to become a well-known writer and actor.

Francis Samuel Marryat, his son, finished his late novel The Little Savage. Marryat's novels are evocative of their day, with concerns about family ties and social standing frequently overshadowing naval action, but they are fascinating as fictionalized accounts of the author's 25 years at sea. These were among the earliest marine novels, admired by Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway. These served as inspiration for C.'s later works.

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ISBN 13	9780233990774
ISBN 10	0233990771
Title	The Children of the New Forest
Author	Captain Marryat
Series	Andre Deutsch Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Welbeck Publishing Group
Year published	1997-04-07
Number of pages	336
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