Marryat

[mar-ee-uht]

noun

1. Frederick, 1792–1848, English naval officer and novelist.

Marryat

/ ˈmærɪət /

noun

1. Frederick, known as Captain Marryat. 1792–1848, English novelist and naval officer; author of novels of sea life, such as Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), and children's stories, such as The Children of the New Forest (1847)

Example Sentences

The research also showed that Joseph Marryat, Lloyd's of London chairman from 1811 to 1824, had enslaved people, White added.

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One hundred years ago today, in Dundee's Marryat Hall, a pensive Winston Churchill waited for the result of an election for what he had once described as a seat for life.

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However, Marryat portrays the vampire as a sympathetic figure, showing how upset and confused she is by her powers, challenging the preconceptions of the Victorian audience.

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Like D'Arcy and Marryat, Butler successfully employs the physicality and blood of the vampire to explore and dismantle the historical and "biological" justifications for racial prejudice.

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Later in the century, Victorian writer Florence Marryat's "The Blood of the Vampire" introduced readers to Harriet Brandt, a psychic vampire born of a white "mad scientist" and an enslaved Creole woman.

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