Edward Howard was a British novelist. He was the sub-editor of The Metropolitan Magazine

The Metropolitan Magazine

The Metropolitan: a monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts was a London monthly journal established by Thomas Campbell in 1831....

 and then worked for New Monthly Magazine. His most successful books were 'Sir Henry Morgan' and `Rattlin the Reefer,'.

Life

He entered the navy, where Captain Frederick Marryat

Frederick Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat 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...

 was his shipmate. On obtaining his discharge he became a contributor of sea stories to periodical literature. When Marryat took the editorship of the Metropolitan Magazine in 1832, he chose Howard for his sub-editor. He subsequently joined the staff of the New Monthly Magazine, then edited by Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet. His son, Tom Hood, became a well known playwright and editor.-Early life:...

. Howard died suddenly on 30 December 1841.

Works

His `Rattlin the Reefer,' 3 vols. London, 1836, a maritime novel, was marketed as 'edited by the author of "Peter Simple,"' and on this account has been erroneously assigned to Marryat. Howard's other works, which were mostly issued as `by the author of "Rattlin the Reefer,"' are:

• 'The Old Commodore,' 3 vols. London, 1837.
• 'Outward Bound; or, a Merchant's Adventures,' London, 1838.
• 'Memoirs of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, K.C.B.,' 2 vols. London, 1839.
• 'Jack Ashore,' 3 vols. London, 1840.
• 'The Centiad: a Poem in four books,' London, 1841.
• 'Sir Henry Morgan, the Buccaneer,' 3 vols. London, 1842 (another edition, 1857).
• 'The Marine Ghost,' in part i. of `Tales from Bentley,' 1859.