Children of the New Forest
Description:... Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat, 1847.The Children of the New Forest is set in the time of the English Civil Warand the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the fourBeverley children who are orphaned during the war, and hide from theirRoundhead oppressors in the shelter of the New Forest where they learnto live off the land.Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as Marryat's Code.
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