Young Mistley

by Henry Seton Merriman

This nineteenth century narrative written in the Thackeray tradition is the first of many Merriman novels. His works were widely read and enjoyed during his own era for their suspenseful style and philosophical comments on life and character. Young Mistley offers modern readers a glimpse of turn-of-the-century English culture, society, and taste.

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First published December 31, 2010

About the author

Hugh Stowell Scott was an English novelist (under the pseudonym of Henry Seton Merriman).

Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1862, he became an underwriter at Lloyd's of London, but then devoted himself to travel and to writing novels, many of which had great popularity. Scott visited India as a tourist in 1877-8 and set his novel Flotsam (1896) there. He was an enthusiastic traveller, many of his journeys being undertaken with his friend and fellow author Stanley J. Weyman. He was unusually modest and retiring in character. He died of appendicitis at the age of about forty at Melton, Suffolk.