author
George Cupples
1822–1891
A Scottish journalist and storyteller best remembered for vivid sea adventures, he drew on real time at sea to give his fiction a lived-in, salty edge. His best-known novel, The Green Hand, helped make his name with readers who loved nautical tales.
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The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant
by George Cupples
About the author
Born in Berwickshire in 1822, George Cupples was a Scottish writer and journalist who became known for maritime fiction. As a young man he was apprenticed to a Liverpool shipowner and spent time on a voyage to India, experience that later gave his sea stories a convincing sense of shipboard life.
After leaving that path, he studied at the University of Edinburgh and went on to work in journalism. He wrote novels, essays, and other prose, but he is most closely associated with nautical adventure stories, especially The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant, the book most often singled out as his best known work.
Cupples died in 1891. He was also connected to a literary household: his wife, Anne Jane Cupples, became a well-known writer of books for children and young readers.