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Florence Marryat (9 July 1833 – 27 October 1899) was an English author and actress. The daughter of author Capt. Frederick Marryat , she was particularly known for her sensational novels and her involvement with several celebrated spiritual mediums of the late 19th century.
The Blood of the Vampire is a Gothic novel by Florence Marryat, published in 1897.The protagonist, Harriet Brandt, is a mixed-race psychic vampire who kills unintentionally. . The novel follows Harriet after she leaves a Jamaican convent for Europe, and her ill-fated attempts to integrate with Victorian socie
The next reported sighting of the "Brown Lady" was made in 1836 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 that he spend the night in the most haunted room of Raynham Hall to prove his theory that the haunting was caused by local ...
In 1819, Marryat married Catherine Shairp. They had four sons and seven daughters together, including Florence, a prolific novelist; Emilia, who became a writer of moralist adventure novels in her father's vein and wrote a biography of him; and Augusta, who also wrote adventure fiction. Frederick Marryat's sketch of Napoleon's body on his deathbed
Tom Tiddler's Ground is also the title of an 1886 memoir by Florence Marryat. It is the title of a 1931 poem and it appears in a 1931 anthology of children's poetry edited by Walter de la Mare, who also wrote a short story titled "Miss Duveen". It's also the title of a 1934 novel by Edward Shanks.
Florence Marryat (1833–1899, England, f/d) Frank Marryat (1826–1855, England, nf) Frederick Marryat (1792–1848, England, f/ch) Horace Marryat (1818–1887 ...
He produced most of the tracks on Florence + the Machine's 2022 album, Dance Fever, while Welch co-wrote, co-produced and provided backing vocals for Antonoff's "Self Respect," a Bleachers song ...
October 27 – Florence Marryat, English novelist and entertainer (born 1833) November 2 – Anna Swanwick, English feminist writer (born 1813) November 13 – Arthur Giry, French historian (born 1848) December 17 – Bernard Quaritch, German-born English bibliographer and bookseller (born 1819)