Tobias George Smollett

A detailed Summary of Tobias George Smollett

Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771), Scottish novelist, was born in

Dalquhurn, Dumbarton County Scotland. Smollett was born beneath a plane

tree at Dalquharn House on the family estate of Bon hill in the Vale of Leven,

near the village of Renton, Dumbartonshire. At fourteen Smollett was

apprenticed to a Glasgow doctor. He studied medicine at Glasgow

University and moved to London in 1740. He was a ship's surgeon in the

Carragena expedition against the Spanish in the West Indies, and lived in

Jamaica until 1744 when he returned to London and renewed his earlier

attempts to stage a play he had written The Regicide, but still met with no

success. He also failed to set up his own medical practice.

His first novel, the partly autobiographical Roderick Random

(1748), was an immediate success. His best novel, The Expedition of

Humphry Clinker (1771), has become a classic. It is a story, told in a series

later, Johnson and Boswell stayed at Cameron House with Smollett's cousin

a work of literature or art that, by inspiring laughter, contempt, or horror,

even being there, in your mind, while they are doing what is described in the

Approximate Word count = 647
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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