Tag Archives: Alexander Kent
The Alan Lewrie Novels: A Perspective
I’ve recently finished working my way through Dewey Lambdin’s series of novels following the career of his character Alan Lewrie. I stumbled onto the first by accident, was captured in the first paragraph, back in November and to a certain … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Alan Lewrie Novels, Naval Fiction
HMS Glatton Takes On All Comers
We’ve observed on several occasions that many of the incidents in novels set during the Age of Sail are heavily influenced by actual events. In most cases, the novel’s protagonist expands on the accomplishments of the actual character. In Ramages’s … Continue reading
Portsmouth Lass
One of the interesting thing I’m encountering in this project is teasing fact out from fiction. In reality, we don’t know a whole lot about life on an man o’ war of the Age of Sail. Some accounts have come … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Alan Lewrie Novels, Naval Fiction, Naval Life, Sea Chanteys
The Rest of the Story
One of the most interesting aspects of the naval fiction set in the wars of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is that the majority of actions described actually happened in one form or another. Following the tradition of … Continue reading
English Harbor, Antigua
English Harbor and the shipyard there, known as Nelson’s Dockyard, figures prominently in the novels of Dewey Lambdin, Dudley Pope, and Alexander Kent. English Harbor was a focal point of British power in the Leeward Islands with the dockyard repairing … Continue reading
Filed under Age of Sail, Geography
Wikipedia Project
Wikipedia has a very in depth biography of C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower but the entries for Dudley Pope’s Nicholas Ramage, Alexander Kent’s Richard Bolitho, and Dewey Lambdin’s Alan Lewrie are much less developed. I took an initial cut at … Continue reading
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Carrick Roads
So much of the personal life of Alexander Kent’s Richard Bolitho centers around his home in Falmouth and Carrick Roads. This is one view:
Filed under Geography
