Prefatory Note
Newton Forster, or the Merchant Service, first
appeared in the Metropolitan Magazine, 1832.
It is one of the novels which specially suggests a
comparison between Marryat and Smoll...
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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. Marr...
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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). Follow...
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Newton Forster
Frederick Marryat
