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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.
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
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 ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
In the 1851 England Census, the Marryat family is listed at 4 Cambridge Villas, Richmond, Surrey. [9] Captain Marryat was renowned for his nautical novels, which include Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), and their father's example as a popular novelist inspired Emilia and two of her sisters to write their own novels in adulthood.
Augusta Marryat (bapt. 23 September 1828 [1] – 10 May 1899) was a British children's writer and illustrator, perhaps best known for her adventure novel Left to Themselves: A Boy's Adventure in Australia (1878) [2] – later published as The Young Lamberts. The novel is set in Australia, but she is not known to have ever visited the continent.
Florence Henderson joined The HuffPost Show this week to reveal a big "Brady Bunch" secret: what really happened to her first husband. "I killed my husband. I was the original Black Widow," Brady ...
The 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.The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during the war, and hide from their Roundhead oppressors in the shelter of the New Forest where they learn to live off the land.