''The Midshipmaid'' is a 1933

comedy novel A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction. Many well-known authors have written comic novels, including P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, and John Kennedy Toole. Comic novels are often defined by the author's literary ...

by the British writer

Ian Hay Major General John Hay Beith, CBE MC (17 April 1876 – 22 September 1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. After rea ...

.Watson & Willison p.599 It is based on his 1931 play '' The Midshipmaid'', co-written with Stephen King-Hall, about the visit of an economic expert to the British fleet to see what cuts can be made and the adventurous flirtation of his daughter with the ship's officers.

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* George Watson & Ian R. Willison. ''The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 4''. CUP, 1972. 1933 British novels Novels by Ian Hay Novels based on plays Hodder & Stoughton books {{1930s-comedy-novel-stub