Cutlass and Cudgel

MP3 Audio CD. From the story of the crew of cutter HMS White Hawk, this is a narrative of handling contrabands in the 19th century outside the shore of Wessex. The midshipman of the cutter is taken captive by the bootleggers and is aided by a pheasant, son of a few of the bootleggers. His alliance is foully snubbed, the midshipman finally runs away and the pheasant gets his lifelong ambition of becoming a seafarer on an Excise vessel.

George Manville Fenn was born on January 3, 1831 in Pimlico and had his final rest on August 26, 1909 in Isleworth. He was a noteworthy British author, journalist, editor and educationalist. Most of his stories were intended for juvenile adults. His last novel was a life account of his fellow novelist for young adults, George Alfred Henty. George was the third child and eldest son of a butler, Charles Fenn, who was widely self-taught, learning himself French, German and Italian.

After attending the Battersea Training College for Teachers (1851?54), he became the master of a national school at Alford, Lincolnshire. He then became a printer, editor and publisher of fleeting magazines, before drawing the courtesy of Charles Dickens and others with an outline for All the Year Round in 1864. He made contributions to the Chambers's Journal and Once a Week. In 1866, he drafted a number of essays on working people life for the periodical The Star. These were gathered and reprinted in four sets.

Some of his writings include: Cabby; Hollowdell Grange; Webs in the Way; Bent, Not Broken in 3 volumes; Mad; By Birth a Lady; The Sapphire Cross; Begumbagh; Adventures of Working Men; In Jeopardy; Sawed Off; The Balloon; The Barrister; Memoir of B. F. Stevens; George Alfred Henty; Featherland; Original Penny Readings; Christmas Penny Readings; Midnight Webs; The Blue Dragoons; Friends I Have Made; My Patients.