Edward Howard (baptised 1793 – 30 December 1841) was an English novelist and sub-editor of ''
The Metropolitan Magazine
''The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts'' was a London monthly journal inaugurated in May 1831, originally edited by Thomas Campbell. It was then published by James Cochrane.
''The Metropolitan Magazine'' ...
''. He then worked for ''
New Monthly Magazine
''The New Monthly Magazine'' was a British monthly magazine published from 1814 to 1884. It was founded by Henry Colburn and published by him through to 1845.
History
Colburn and Frederic Shoberl established ''The New Monthly Magazine and Univer ...
''. His best known books were ''Sir Henry Morgan'' and ''Rattlin the Reefer''.
Life
Howard entered the navy, where Captain
Frederick Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) 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 ...
was his shipmate. On obtaining a discharge, he began to contribute
sea stories to periodicals. When Marryat became editor of the ''Metropolitan Magazine'' in 1832, he chose Howard as his sub-editor. Howard later joined the staff of the ''New Monthly Magazine'', which was then edited by
Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as " The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for ''The London Magazine'', ''Athenaeum'', and ''Punch''. ...
.
Edward Howard died suddenly on 30 December 1841.
His widow, Anne Roper Howard, remarried in 1846, to
Octavian Blewitt, secretary to the
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.
Works
Howard's ''Rattlin the Reefer'' (3 vols. London, 1836), a maritime novel, bore the inscription "edited by the author of ''Peter Simple''. This was misunderstood to mean that Marryat wrote it. It is available free as an E-book. Howard's other works, which were mostly issued as "by the author of ''Rattlin the Reefer''," are:
*''The Old
Commodore
Commodore may refer to:
Ranks
* Commodore (rank), a naval rank
** Commodore (Royal Navy), in the United Kingdom
** Commodore (United States)
** Commodore (Canada)
** Commodore (Finland)
** Commodore (Germany) or ''Kommodore''
* Air commodore, a ...
'', 3 vols. London, 1837
*''Outward Bound; or, a Merchant's Adventures'', London, 1838; originally ''Ardent Troughton, the Wrecked Merchant'', 1836–1837 in
The Metropolitan Magazine
''The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts'' was a London monthly journal inaugurated in May 1831, originally edited by Thomas Campbell. It was then published by James Cochrane.
''The Metropolitan Magazine'' ...
, vol. 16–19, was erroneously assigned to Marryat, and under this authorship was published in translations, like French (1838), many Russian editions.
Приключения Ардента Троутона (Ardent Troughton)
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Content
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and possibly others.
*''Memoirs of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, K.C.B.'', 2 vols. London, 183
Volume 1Volume 2
*''Jack Ashore'', 3 vols. London, 1840
*''The Centiad: a Poem in four books'', London, 1841
*''Sir Henry Morgan, the Buccaneer'', 3 vols. London, 1842 (another edition 1857)
*''The Marine Ghost'', in Part i. of ''Tales from Bentley'', 1859[
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1793 births
1841 deaths
19th-century British novelists
British male novelists
19th-century British male writers
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