Edward Howard (novelist) explained

Edward Howard (baptised 1793 – 30 December 1841) was an English novelist and sub-editor of The Metropolitan Magazine. He then worked for New Monthly Magazine. His best known books were Sir Henry Morgan and Rattlin the Reefer.^[1]

Life

Howard entered the navy, where Captain Frederick Marryat 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.

Edward Howard died suddenly on 30 December 1841.^[2] His widow, Anne Roper Howard, remarried in 1846, to Octavian Blewitt, secretary to the Royal Literary Fund.

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.^[3] Howard's other works, which were mostly issued as "by the author of Rattlin the Reefer," are:

• The Old Commodore, 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, vol. 16–19,^{[4] [5]} was erroneously assigned to Marryat, and under this authorship was published in translations, like French (1838),^[6] many Russian editions.^[7] and possibly others.
• Memoirs of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, K.C.B., 2 vols. London, 1839;Volume 1 Volume 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^[2]

Notes and References

1. Jessica . Hinings. Howard, Edward (bap. 1793, d. 1841). Sep 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/13894. 20 May 2010 . subscription.
2. Howard, Edward (d.1841).
3. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21578 Retrieved 13 May 2019.
4. Web site: TheCurranIndex.
5. Web site: At the Circulating Library Title Information: Outward Bound.
6. https://archive.org/details/ardenttroughtono02howa Ardent Troughton : ou, Le commerçant naufragé
7. https://fantlab.ru/work241818 Приключения Ардента Троутона (Ardent Troughton)