Tobias Smollett
Videos
Tobias George Smollett was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and The Expediti
Portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, c. 1764
Tobias Smollett as depicted on the Scott Monument
Portrait of Smollett by unknown artist, 1770
Tobias Smollett Monument in Renton, West Dunbartonshire
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. It is an ep
Tobias Smollett
…surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later generations of British novelists, including Charles Dickens. His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers…
1857 illustration by Phiz