Florence Marryat

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Florence Marryat

Florence Marryat , later Florence Lean , (born July 9, 1833 in Brighton , Sussex , † October 27, 1899 in St. John's Wood, City of Westminster , London ) was an English writer .

Life

Florence Marryat was the tenth child of the naval officer and writer Frederick Marryat and his wife Catherine nee. Shairp. Marryat wrote her first novel at the age of 11 .

In 1853, at the age of 16, she married T. Ross Church, who would later become an officer , and to whom she bore eight children. With her husband, who was stationed with the colonial army in Madras , Marryat [-Church] made several trips to the Indian subcontinent .

To distract her children suffering from scarlet fever , she wrote her first stories, which were printed in London in 1865. Many of the 90 sensational novels she wrote later have been translated into other languages.

From 1872 to 1876 Marryat was entrusted with the publication of the monthly magazine London Society . She published u. a. a biography of her father, Life and letters of Captain Marryat (1872). Incidentally she was a playwright , an actress in comedy , singer , sole entertainer and director of a journalism school . Together with George Grossmith , she wrote the stage program Entre-nous? and completed a successful tour by the summer of 1877 . In February 1881 Marryat took over the management of the Adelphi Theater in London.

Church was divorced in 1879 and Marryat married the Royal Marine Light Infantry - Colonel Francis Lean that same year .

In the last years of her life she became increasingly concerned with spiritualism in her works .

Florence Marryat died at the age of 66 in St. John's Wood, London.

Works (in selection)

  • Love's Conflict , 1865
  • Woman against woman , 1865
  • Gup. Sketches of Anglo-Indian life and character , 1868
  • The girls of Feversham , 1869
  • The prey of the gods. A novel , 1871
  • The fair-haired Alda. A novel , 1880
  • Old Contrairy, and other stories , 1884
  • The Heart of Jane Warner , 1884, online (German Hanna Warner's heart )
  • Written in fire , 1886
  • My sister the actress , 1886
  • Her lord and master , 1886
  • Open, sesame! , 1887
  • No intentions , 1887
  • Facing the footlights , 1887
  • The master passion , 1887
  • Driven to bay. A novei , 1887
  • The confessions of Gerald Estcourt , 1887
  • On circumstantial evidence , 1889
  • Mount Eden. A romance , 1889
  • How they loved him , 1889
  • A crown of shame , 1889
  • Her world against a lie , 1890
  • Parson Jones , 1893
  • Life and letters of Captain Marryat , 1872
  • The noble sex , 1892
  • The spirit world , 1894
  • The dead man's message. An occult romance , 1894
  • There is no death , 1891
  • At heart a rake , 1895
  • A fatal silence , 1902 (posthumous)

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personal data
SURNAME Marryat, Florence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lean, Florence (married)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1899
Place of death St. John's Wood, City of Westminster , London