Life of Frederick Marryat

The weakness which proved fatal to Marryat had shown itself while he was still a young lieutenant in the West Indies. He had then been invalided home for rupture of a blood vess...

His departure for America is a convenient date at which to stop and survey Marryat’s literary work. After 1837, he did some things as good as anything he had done before, and so...

The state of being “rather in want of money” was to be chronic with Marryat, if we are to judge by the amount of writing he did during the remaining nine years of his life. Befo...

Langham, to which Marryat betook himself for good in 1843, had been in his possession for some thirteen years. Its history, as far as he was concerned, may be taken to have been...

When Marryat was about to start for the United States he gave a reason of some gravity for his proposed trip. The last words of the “Diary on the Continent” propound a serious q...

From 1830 to his death in 1848 Marryat was a working man of letters, and a busy one. His books were many, and they do not represent all his labours. There was a life of his old...

When the _Impérieuse_ reached the coast of Spain early in 1808, we were still at war with that country. Napoleon had not yet turned his submissive ally into an enemy by that act...

Fortune could not have done Marryat a greater kindness than to send him to sea on the quarter-deck of the _Impérieuse_. She enabled him to share in the most stirring work to be...

When the great war came at last to an end in 1815, leaving Marryat a commander at the age of three-and-twenty, his ambition was still to be the successful naval officer, and not...

Frederick Marryat, one of the most brilliant, and the least fairly recognized, of English novelists, was born in Westminster, on the 10th July, 1792, some seven months before th...

The naval war in 1806: the frigates of the Great War; Lord Cochrane, afterwards Lord Dundonald, Captain of the _Impérieuse_; his character; his influence on Marryat; the cruises...

Marryat’s position in 1815; goes abroad; marriage; appointed to _Beaver_; at St. Helena changes to _Rosario_; in Channel; pays off _Rosario_; the Channel smugglers; appointed to...

Marryat’s literary work up to 1837; his early success, and determination to make money; quarrels with publisher; prices paid him; “Frank Mildmay”; quotation from _Metropolitan M...

His fatal illness; his _physique_ and personal appearance; letter to Lord Auckland on supposed slight; Hastings; loss of H.M.S. _Avenger_, and death of Marryat’s son, Lieutenant...

Marryat goes to Langham for good in 1843; life there; Marryat and his children; kindness to his men; his scientific farming, and its financial results; his literary work; asked...

_Impérieuse_ on coast of Spain; cutting out privateer from Almeria Bay; alliance with Spain; Rosas; the Basque Roads; naval service of Marryat after parting with Cochrane till t...

From 1830 to 1848 a writer; his literary life; expensive habits; early success in novel writing; editorial ventures; _The Metropolitan Magazine_; hard work in 1833-34; in 1833 h...

Movements in London; ruin of West Indian property; life and friendships in London; Duke Street, Wimbledon, Piccadilly, Spanish Place; first signs of breaking health; goes to Lan...

Visit to America in 1837; his object in going there; in New York; letter to his mother describing where he has been; visit to Canada; affair of the _Caroline_; unpopularity in U...

Frederick Marryat born 10th July, 1792; his parentage; his ancestry; home training; schooling at Enfield; runs away to sea; is sent into the navy and joins the _Impérieuse_ unde...