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Augusta Marryat

1829 – 1899

British novelist, writer of adventure novels for children, illustrator of children's books

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Lived 1829 – 1899 (aged 69–70). Augusta Marryat was a novelist.

Augusta Marryat (bapt. 23 September 1828 – 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 – later published as The Young Lamberts. The novel is set in Australia, but she is not known to have ever visited the continent.

Life Marryat was born in Fulham, Surrey, England, the daughter of Frederick Marryat and his wife Catherine (née Shairp). Captain Marryat was a successful popular novelist and two of Augusta's sisters, Florence and Emilia, also became writers. Augusta wrote adventure fiction heavily infused with morality in her father's vein,

Selected works

Lost in the Jungle: A Story of the Indian Mutiny (London: Griffith and Farran, 1877). Left to Themselves: A Boy's Adventures in Australia (London: Frederick Warne, 1878). The Reverse of the Shield: or, The Adventures of Grenville Le Marchant during the Franco-Prussian War (London: Frederick Warne, 1879)

A full bibliography is available in The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: 1800-1900, Vol. 4.

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1829
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Died
1899
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Who was Augusta Marryat?

British novelist, writer of adventure novels for children, illustrator of children's books (1828-1899)

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Augusta Marryat was born in 1829.

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Augusta Marryat died in 1899.

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Augusta Marryat was a novelist.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Augusta Marryat

· Wikidata: Q16204702

· DBpedia: Augusta Marryat

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