Frederick Marryat Quotes


There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.


Citations

Marryat, Frederick. Jacob Faithful. Saunders and Otley, 1834.

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Frederick Marryat
Frederick Marryat
  • Born: July 10, 1792
  • Died: August 9, 1848
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Novelist

Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code.