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The Early Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Era, Dec 1840–May 1841; 3 vols 1841, 1 vol Paris 1841 (with A recontre),
London 1846 (as The poacher) etc.
reviews: Lit Gazette, 10 July 1841; Athenaeum, 7 Aug 1841; [Poe,
E. A.] Graham’s Mag, Sep 1841.
Percival Keene. 3 vols 1842, 1 vol Paris 1842, London 1848, 1857 (with
memoir); introd R. B. Johnson 1906. Tr Fr 1843, Ger 1843.
reviews: Athenaeum, 10 Sep 1842; Monthly Rev, Oct 1842;
[Johnstone, C.] Tait’s Edinburgh Mag 9, 1842.
Narrative of the travels and adventures of Monsieur Violet in
California, Sonora and western Texas. 3 vols 1843, 1 vol 1843,
1849 (as Travels and romantic adventures of Monsieur Violet
among the Snake Indians and wild tribes of the great western
prairies).
review: Athenaeum, 2 Dec 1843.
The settlers in Canada, written for young people. 2 vols 1844 etc;
illustr Gilbert and Dalziel 1860; introd R. B. Johnson 1906; ed O.
Warner 1956. Tr Fr 1852; Norwegian 1906; Danish 1932.
reviews: [Johnstone, C.] Tait’s Edinburgh Mag 11, 1844;
Athenaeum, 21 Sep 1844; Ainsworth’s Mag 6, 1844.
The mission: or scenes in Africa, written for young people. 2 vols
1845; illustr J. Gilbert 1860. Tr Ger 1851, Fr 1853.
reviews: NMM, Aug 1845; Athenaeum, 9 Aug 1845.
The privateer’s-man, one hundred years ago. Serialised NMM, Aug
1845–June 1846. 2 vols 1846, 1 vol Paris 1846, Leipzig 1846; introd
Tony Harrison 1970. Tr Polish 1937, Swedish 1938.
reviews: Athenaeum, 18 Jul 1846; NMM, Aug 1846.
The children of the New forest. Planned for pt issue; only pt 1 (chs
1–4) issued Apr 1847; 2 vols 1847, Leipzig 1848; illustr Frank
Marryat 1847, 1849 etc; illustr J. Gilbert 1853; introd R. B. Johnson
1907; 1948 (Puffin); introd O. Warner 1955; ed D. Butts 1991. Tr Fr
1854, Danish 1932, Polish 1934.
reviews: Athenaeum, 24 Apr 1847; Examiner, 1 May 1847.
The little savage. 2 vols 1848–9 (pbd posthumously by Frank S.
Marryat, who completed the work from ch 3 of vol 2 and illustr
it); illustr J. Gilbert 1852, 1853, illustr A. W. Cooper and J. Gilbert
1893, 1889, 1907. Tr Fr 1859.
reviews: NMM, Jan 1849; Lit Gazette, 3 Mar 1849.
Valerie: an autobiography. Serialised to end of vol 2 ch 3 NMM, July
1846–Feb 1847; 2 vols 1849 etc. Finished by another hand and pbd
posthumously.
review: Lit Gazette, 23 Jun 1849. Tr Ger, 1850.
Many pirated edns of Marryat’s books were pbd in America; see Sadleir, XIX
century fiction, Bibliographies, above.
Contributions to periodicals
Marryat contributed mainly to Metropolitan Mag (which he owned and ed
1832–6) and NMM. Some pieces, sometimes with variations of title, were pbd
in more than 1 periodical. List below excludes material that later appeared in
book form.
Novels and novel writing. Metropolitan Mag, Nov 1832, Oct 1834.
The cavalier of Seville: a tragedy. Metropolitan Mag, Mar, Apr, May
1833, rev as The monk of Seville in 3-vol edns of Olla podrida and
subsequently omitted.
The gipsy: or ‘Whose son am I?’ Metropolitan Mag, Sep 1834.
Comedy in 3 acts.
Mr Willis’s ‘Pencillings by the way’. Metropolitan Mag, Jan 1836.
Confessions and opinions of Ralph Restless. NMM, July, Aug, Sep,
Oct 1837, Mar 1838.
The history of a genius. Mirror 29, 1837.
Authors of the present day. New-York Mirror, 4 Nov 1837.
Lines. NMM, Apr 1838. Poem.
The fairy’s wand: a tale of Windsor park in the days of the Merry
Monarch. NMM, Mar 1840.
First discovery of Van Demons’ land. George Cruikshank’s Omnibus,
1842.
How to raise the wind. Ibid.
Collaborative works
Marryat collaborated with George Cruikshank in providing sketches for
engravings, including The progress of a midshipman: exemplified in
the career of Master Blockhead. In seven plates and a frontispiece. 1820.
Published letters
In Florence Marryat’s life and letters of Captain Marryat (see below).
Separate letters to GM, May 1820; Metropolitan Mag, Sep 1834;
London Gazette, 26 Mar, 20 Aug 1825; Albion, 20 Oct 1838 (see bibliography
in Gautier’s Captain Frederick Marryat, Bibliographies,
above).
Attributed works
The floral telegraph: a new mode of communication by floral
signals. 1836 (anon; ascribed by the ‘editor’ to ‘Horace
Honeycomb’, who wrote the dedication); 1850 (re-issued under
Marryat’s name). Doubtful authorship; see Sadleir’s XIX century
fiction.
Rattlin the reefer. 1836. Anonymous novel by Edward Howard sponsored
by Marryat and hence attributed to him. Howard’s other
books also sometimes attributed to Marryat: The old commodore,
1837; Outward bound, 1838; Jack ashore, 1840; Sir Henry
Morgan the buccaneer, 1842.
Imitations
Aytoun, W. E. The flying dutchman: a tale of the sea. 1842; rptd in W.
Hamilton, Parodies of the works of English and American
authors, 1889.
Harte, Bret. Mr Midshipman Breezy: a naval officer. By Captain
M_rry_t, RN. In his Condensed novels, 1871.
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[Wilson, J. and J. Hogg]. Noctes ambrosianae lxvi. Blackwood’s Mag,
July 1834.
Naval novelists. Fraser’s Mag, May 1838.
Horne, R. H. In his A new spirit of the age. 1844.
Obits: Athenaeum 12 Aug 1848; Illus London News, 19 Aug 1848;
GM, Dec 1848.
Whitehead, C. Memoir of Captain Marryat, RN CB. Bentley’s Misc,
Nov 1848.
H[urton], W. Marryat’s sea stories. Dublin Univ Mag, Mar 1856.
Redding, C. In Yesterday and to-day, 1863.
[Doran, J]. Marryat. Temple Bar, Dec 1872.
Marryat, Florence. Life and letters of Captain Marryat. 2 vols 1872.
Escott, T. H. S. Land and sea. London Soc Jan 1873.
[Hannay, J]. Sea-novels: Captain Marryat. Cornhill Mag, Feb 1873.
Hannay, D. Life of Frederick Marryat. 1889.
Iddesleigh, Lord. Marryat as novelist. Monthly Rev Sep 1904.
Saintsbury, G. In his The English novel, 1913.
Conrad, J. Tales of the sea. Outlook, 1898, rptd in Notes on life and
letters, 1921.
Warner, O. Captain Marryat: a rediscovery. 1953.
Gautier, M.-P. Captain Frederick Marryat: l’homme et l’oeuvre.
Paris, 1973. [dh]
Charles Robert Maturin 1780–1824
The original ms version of Bertram is at Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott’s home,
Melrose, Scotland; licensing versions of Bertram and other plays by
Maturin are in the Larpent Collection in the Huntington. Letters to
Archibald Constable, the Edinburgh publisher, and copies of letters from
Constable to Maturin, are in the NLS, Edinburgh; correspondence with
Messrs Hurst and Robinson, the publishers of The Albigenses, and other
letters relating to Maturin’s literary production, are in the BL, while letters
to John Murray, the London publisher, are in the offices of John Murray Ltd,
London; the Bodleian holds letters to Henry Colburn, publisher of The
Milesian chief.