I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

These short stories plays pieces of travel journalism and essays appeared in The Metropolitan Magazine too and were later publiFrederick Marryatd in book form as Olla Podrida. Literary career
From 1832 to 1835 Marryat edited The Metropolitan Magazine. He kept producing novels with his biggest success Mr Midshipman Easy coming in 1836.

He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code. Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer novelist and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story.