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Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Marryat, Florence
MARRYAT, FLORENCE, successively Mrs. Church and Mrs. Lean (1838–1899), novelist, born at Brighton on 9 July 1838, was sixth daughter and tenth child of Captain Frederick Marryat [q.
v.] and his wife Catherine, daughter or Sir Stephen Shairp of Houston, Linlithgowshire. She was educated at home, and was always a great reader. On 13 June 1854, at the age of sixteen, she married at Penang T. Ross Church, afterwards colonel in the Madras staff corps, with whom she travelled over nearly the whole of India.
She had by him eight children.
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She outlived him, and in 1890 married, as her second husband, Colonel Francis Lean of the royal marine light infantry.
Her first novel, 'Love's Conflict,' written to distract her mind in the intervals of nursing her children with scarlet fever, appeared in 1865.
Between that date and the year of her death she published some ninety novels, many of which, notwithsta