The epic 'Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend' (1837) earns its place on our shelves as one of the naval novels of Captain Frederick Marryat FRS.
163 months ago

The sloop of war, Heron, bearing two emissaries bringing the news of Napoleon's death left St Helena on 7/8 May arrived early on 4 July 1821.
39 months ago

Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), naval hero, inventor, writer of classic English novels, and associated with two of Wimbledon's best known houses
145 months ago

Frederick Marryat was a popular 19th century novelist best known for pioneering the genre of sea stories and for writing other action and adventure books.
98 months ago

"Diary in America, Series One" by Frederick Marryat offers a detailed account of the author's observations during his visit to the United States and Canada...
97 months ago

In The Children of the New Forest, Marryat describes the trials and triumphs of the four Beverley children, orphaned during the English Civil War.
40 months ago

This book is a fictional account of an English family, fallen on hard times, emigrating to Canada in the early colonial days to get a new start.
100 months ago

Frederick Marryat was a naval officer and the first important English novelist after Tobias Smollett to make full and amusing use of his varied experience...
108 months ago

"Diary in America - Series Two" from Frederick Marryat. English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens...
93 months ago

Frederick Marryat by Richard James Lane, published by John Mitchell, after Alfred, Count D'Orsay lithograph with some hand-colouring, (April 1841)
78 months ago