Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.
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Frederick Marryat
Standard Name: Marryat, Frederick
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Annie Besant | AB
was educated at Fern Hill in Dorset by Evangelist Ellen Marryat
, sister of novelist Captain Frederick Marryat
and therefore aunt of his daughter Florence
, also a noted writer. AB
studied geography, Latin... |
| Education | Susan Tweedsmuir | She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's... |
| Education | Lucille Iremonger | Lucille wrote, Both my parents were great chastisers, she with a hairbrush, he with a razor-strop, and both, later, with the thin and supple cane. I think most parents did a bit of chastising in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Marryat | Captain Frederick Marryat
, FM
's father, was a distinguished naval officer renowned for conspicuous gallantry, a Fellow of the Royal Society
and member of the Légion d'Honneur
, a spectacular success as a novelist... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | Besides her time in the USA with Fanny Kemble
, Catherine Sedgwick
, and William Channing
, ABJ
made the acquaintance of Frederick Marryat
, whose advice on publishing matters she appreciated. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Walford | An interesting textual allusion comes early in the novel when the youngest sister reluctantly puts down Captain Marryat
's Children of the New Forest to entertain the ordinary everyday visitor Walford, Lucy. Cousins. New Edition, William Blackwood and Sons, 1879. 63 |
| Literary responses | Florence Marryat | William Lush
in his Athenæum review opened by invoking the reputation of FM
's father
, and judged that his daughter's first experiment in fiction was exceedingly good, showing great descriptive power and commanding... |
| Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This work involved her in finding—and engaging in voluminous correspondence with—contributors (who often were or became her personal friends), such as Anna Maria Hall
, Felicia Hemans
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Russell Mitford
,... |
| Textual Production | Mary Wesley | As a small child Mary Farmar (later MW
) spent hours telling herself stories set in particular locations derived from her reading of the Baroness Orczy
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, and Frederick Marryat
... |
| Textual Production | Florence Marryat | FM
's non-fiction works include the travel book 'Gup', Sketches of Anglo-Indian Life and Character, 1868, and her Life and Letters of Captain Marryat, 1872. 'Gup' appeared serially in Temple Bar before... |
| Travel | Florence Marryat | FM
made, as a performer, a tour of the USA about which she later published a book: her father
, too, had travelled North America and written of it in A Diary in America, with... |
Timeline
10 July 1792: Captain Frederick Marryat, novelist and father...
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10 July 1792
Captain Frederick Marryat
, novelist and father of Florence Marryat
, was born in Great George Street, Westminster.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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14 March 1829: Captain Frederick Marryat anonymously published...
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14 March 1829
Captain Frederick Marryat
anonymously published his first novel, The Naval Officer; or, Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1831: The Metropolitan Magazine began publication;...
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1831
The Metropolitan Magazine began publication; it set a precedent by publishing the first serial fiction in an English periodical.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
431
6 July 1839: In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat...
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6 July 1839
In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat
promoted the stereotype that middle-class Americans adhered to a more strict paradigm of prudishness than their British counterparts, and apparently gave rise to the myth that Victorians...
May 1841: Captain Frederick Marryat published volume...
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May 1841
Captain Frederick Marryat
published volume one of his first children's book, Masterman Ready, Or The Wreck of the Pacific.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
By 24 April 1847: Captain Frederick Marryat published Children...
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By 24 April 1847
Captain Frederick Marryat
published Children of the New Forest, his last and most popular novel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1017 (24 April 1847): 436
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
9 August 1848: Captain Frederick Marryat, novelist and father...
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9 August 1848
Captain Frederick Marryat
, novelist and father of Florence Marryat
, died at Langham, Norfolk.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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