Author: David Hannay

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 92

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Life of Frederick Marryat is the biography of a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr. Midshipman Easy. Contents: "CHAPTER I. 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 under Captain Lord Cochrane, in September 1806, CHAPTER II. The naval war in 1806: the frigates of the Great War..."