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]
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.
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:
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