Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer and a novelist. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical...
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1906 Emilia Marryat (1835–1875), English author of children's books Frank Marryat (1826–1855), sailor, artist, and author Frederick Marryat (1792–1848)...
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mother of the writer Frederick Marryat. Their association with the area is recorded in the names of nearby Calonne and Marryat roads. Directly south...
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variations exist such as 1. From the 1840 novel Poor Jack (chapter 4), by Frederick Marryat. Pretty little twinkling star, How I wonder what you are; All above...
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Florence Marryat (9 July 1833 – 27 October 1899) was a British author and actress. The daughter of author Capt. Frederick Marryat, she was particularly...
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Mr Midshipman Easy (category Novels by Frederick Marryat)
1836 novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired captain in the British Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself served...
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was first pioneered by James Fenimore Cooper (The Pilot, 1824) and Frederick Marryat (Frank Mildmay, 1829 and Mr Midshipman Easy 1836) in the early 19th...
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Jefferies Charles Kingsley W. H. G. Kingston Rudyard Kipling Andrew Lang Frederick Marryat George MacDonald Mary Louisa Molesworth Kirk Munroe E. Nesbit Frances...
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HMS Imperieuse, formerly the Spanish frigate Medea. One of his midshipmen was Frederick Marryat, who later wrote fictionalised accounts of his adventures with Cochrane...
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first general system of signalling for merchant vessels was Captain Frederick Marryat's A Code of Signals for the Merchant Service published in 1817. This...
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and naval officer Frederick Marryat characterised brigs as having superior windward performance to the schooners of that time. Marryat is considered, by...
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didactic verse, and made the rounds of the London publishing houses. Frederick Warne & Co had previously rejected the tale but, eager to compete in the...
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February 2013. The caricature was devised in collaboration with Frederick Marryat (*Captain Marryat). See Temi Odumosu's article in The Slave in European Art:...
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The Children of the New Forest (category Novels by Frederick Marryat)
Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth...
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Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific (category Novels by Frederick Marryat)
the Pacific is a robinsonade children's novel published in 1841 by Frederick Marryat. The book follows the adventures of the Seagrave family who are shipwrecked...
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continent. Marryat was born in Fulham, Surrey, England, the daughter of Frederick Marryat and his wife Catherine (née Shairp). Captain Marryat was a successful...
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"shiver my timbers" probably first appeared in a published work by Frederick Marryat called Jacob Faithful (1835), the phrase actually appeared in print...
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by Captain Frederick Marryat, a friend of novelist Charles Dickens, and the author of a series of popular sea novels. It is said that Marryat requested...
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Peter Simple (novel) (category Novels by Frederick Marryat)
Peter Simple is an 1834 novel written by Frederick Marryat about a young British midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. It was originally published in...
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rather than naval ones. However, in his 1840 novel Poor Jack, Captain Frederick Marryat reports that the song "Spanish Ladies"—though once very popular—was...
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Jefferies Charles Kingsley W. H. G. Kingston Rudyard Kipling Andrew Lang Frederick Marryat George MacDonald Mary Louisa Molesworth Kirk Munroe E. Nesbit Frances...
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as a slang expression for a pig. Poor Jack, novel by Frederick Marryat, 1842. In his novel Marryat, who was himself a seaman before he turned to writing...
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Horace Marryat (1815 – 3 April 1905) who married 1842 Horace Marryat, and had issue two sons: Adrian Somerset Marryat (born 1844) and Frederick Marryat (born...
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well known local smuggling families. It was in this context that Frederick Marryat, author of The Children of the New Forest, was sent on patrol here...
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It is called simply 'jolly' in the early 19th century novels of Frederick Marryat. The word may have been in use considerably earlier, as the record...
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is from 1824. The dictionary cites Royal Navy officer and novelist Frederick Marryat as using the term in 1830. British newspaper usage of the term can...
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small "hailstones" or pounded small lumps of ice. British captain Frederick Marryat's 1840 book Second Series of A Diary in America describes on page 41...
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University Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-0521598606. Frederick Marryat, A Diary in America (London, 1839) Frederick Marryat (1840), "Chapter 17", Poor Jack "Africans...
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Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), semi-autobiographical novel by Captain Frederick Marryat, who served as a Royal Navy officer (1806–1830) including during Napoleonic...
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The Phantom Ship (category Novels by Frederick Marryat)
The Phantom Ship (1839) is a Gothic novel by Frederick Marryat which explores the legend of the Flying Dutchman. The plot concerns the quest of Philip...
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