Tobias Smollett (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Tobias Smollett (SMAHL-uht), born in 1721 at Dalquhurn near Bonhill, Scotland, was the most prolific and venturesome of the eighteenth century’s novelists. After 1754, the year Henry Fielding died and Samuel Richardson published his last work, Smollett was often praised as the most talented novelist in the language. He was at the same time one of England’s foremost political journalists and, after David Hume, its most influential historian; in the 1750’s and 1760’s he wrote or edited some seventy volumes of nonfiction.
A poor and hot-tempered Scot, Smollett was a...
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