The complete online text of Frank Mildmay by Frederick Marryat.

Frederick Marryat was almost fifty and had long completed the work for which he must have imagined he would be remembered when he wrote his first book for children, Masterman Ready (1841-1842). Following a distinguished career of more than twenty years i...

It has been the fate of very few British writers to have their effigies burned on the streets of New York; it may well be that Captain Frederick Marryat is the only one to whom this has happened. Marryat had arrived in New York early in May 1837 and stay...

The Forgotten Commissioner: Sir William Mildmay and the Anglo-French Commission of 1750-1755. By Enid Robbie. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 307. $59.95.) When the War of the Austrian Succession ended in 1748, representatives of Britain and France met...

Tom Cain, ed. The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland: from the Fulbeck, Harvard and Westmorland Manuscripts. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001. xii+465 pp. ISBN 0 7190 5984 4 Cloth. Andrew McRae University of Exeter a.mcrae@exeter.ac.uk McRae, Andrew....