biography
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Smollett, Tobias (George)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1721–71)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Cardross, Argyll and Bute, W Scotland, UK. He studied medicine at Glasgow University, served on the Cartagena expedition in 1741, and settled in London as a surgeon in 1744. He turned to writing, achieving success with his first works, the picaresque novels The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751). He spent several years in journal editing, translating, and writing historical and travel works. He retired to Italy in 1768, and completed his masterpiece, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), just before he died. |
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