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Life of Frederick Marryat

Chapter 22: IBSEN’S PROSE DRAMAS.
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The biography follows a nineteenth-century naval officer from a comfortable family background through early service at sea, daring frigate cruises, and successive commands, highlighting formative influence from a charismatic captain and numerous maritime adventures. It then traces his return to civilian life, marriage, and a prolific literary career of sea novels, children’s stories, and editorial projects, set against financial strains and a contested visit abroad. The account closes with his withdrawal to country life, failing health and death, and an appraisal of his character, habits, and contribution to popular maritime literature.

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We seem at last to be shown men and women as they are; and at first it is more than we can endure.… All Ibsen’s characters speak and act as if they were hypnotised, and under their creator’s imperious demand to reveal themselves. There never was such a mirror held up to nature before: it is too terrible.… Yet we must return to Ibsen, with his remorseless surgery, his remorseless electric-light, until we, too, have grown strong and learned to face the naked—if necessary, the flayed and bleeding—reality.”—Speaker (London).

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