Augusta Marryat

Augusta Marryat (bapt. 23 September 1828 – 10 May 1899) was a British children's writer and illustrator, perhaps best known for the adventure novel Left to Themselves: A Boy's Adventure in Australia (1878) – later published as The Young Lamberts. The novel is set in Australia, but she is not known to have ever visited the continent.

Marryat was born in Fulham, Surrey, England, the daughter of Frederick Marryat and his wife Catherine (née Shairp). Captain Marryat was a successful popular novelist and three of the daughters became writers: Augusta, Florence, and Emilia. Augusta wrote adventure fiction heavily infused with morality in her father's vein, and Florence was a prolific author of sensationalist novels who also acquired a reputation for hanging out with spiritual mediums. A full bibliography of Augusta Marryat is available in The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: 1800-1900, Vol. 4.

She died in Surrey in 1899.