Emilia Marryat

[2][3][4][5][6] The third daughter of the author Captain Frederick Marryat and his wife, Catherine, she followed her father's example by infusing her adventure novels with moral lessons.

[12][13][14] No doubt inspired by his grandfather's legacy, Frank achieved at the age of 24 the rank of second mate in the British Navy in Charmouth, Dorset.

[20] In the Preface to her sister's last work expressly intended for publication during her lifetime, Paul Howard's Captivity and Why He Escaped (1876), Augusta included the following note, "Since these pages were written, but before they could go to press, the kind hand that penned them – the active brain of one who loved and sought to benefit by tender truths all little children – lay at rest.

Emilia Marryat Norris died suddenly on the 20th of last April; and all of you boys and girls who read this her last work – you in whose joys and sorrows she so greatly sympathized – must receive it now as you would a legacy from one who loved you.

While in the nursery, to the horror of his mother, Lady Flora Arden, he flings a knife at a servant maid, resulting in her leg being amputated.

It was followed by Henry Lyle; or, Life and Existence (1856), a story of a beneficent young man, Henry Lyle, attempting to help several people in his community find self-worth and useful employment; most notably, he helps a young teenager, Willy Benson, overcome his learning difficulties through education, and find a place in society despite his disability.

She also wrote Every-day (1861) as a guide to proper child-raising, warning parents against mistreating any one of their children or showing favoritism, which leads to bad effects later in life.

Emilia states, "Time softens all things: but speak in grown age to one who has passed through a neglected and an unjust childhood, and you will find that the more tangible sorrows of later years have not made so deep an impression as the remembrance of those first half-intelligible griefs.