Captain Jack, which was also published in 21 weekly one-penny parts, was the first in a sequence of six war stories by George Emmett which were later grouped together as Shot & Shell. All five brothers - George, William, Henry, Thomas and Robert - wrote for their own papers, with George becoming the most prolific and the best-known. George was the eldest of five brothers who established their own publishing concern in London and for a few years were Brett’s greatest rivals. Brett whose Boys of England, launched in 1866, had become an extremely popular weekly boys’ story paper.ĮMMETT BROTHERS. It was inspired by the success of publisher Edwin J. THE SERIAL Captain Jack or One of the Light Brigade was a story about the Crimean War written by George Emmett and first published in The Young Englishman’s Journal in 1868. Roy and I have been trying to help Robert to establish whether Captain Jack’s author and publisher, George Emmett (and/or one of his brothers), was ever in the Light Brigade, and whether the Shot and Shell works, starring Captain Jack, were written (as was claimed) from direct experience. The article is by Robert J Kirkpatrick, author of From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha’penny Dreadfuller (2013 and other studies of Victorian popular literature A terrific (and very well-illustrated) article has just been published on the “Yesterday’s Papers” website about the Crimean War story, Captain Jack or One of the Light Brigade.
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