Smollett, Tobias

19 March 1721 - 21 October 1771

Scottish physician and writer; his novel Ferdinand Count Fathom [1753] is an early precursor of and influence upon Gothic fiction.

Sites:
Biographical essay
[Ian Campbell Ross, Trinity College Dublin; Literary Encyclopedia]
Biographical note
[Andrew Crumey, Scottish Writers on the Internet]
Tobias Smollett
Biographical note. [SLAINTE]
Brief biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Fielding and Smollet
A series of brief entries on Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollet, with the latter pieces providing biographical info on Smollett as well as brief considerations of some of his major works. By Harold Child, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21) [Bartleby.com]
Brief biographical note
Biographical note that doubles as a publisher's blurb for a recent volume on Smollet by Jerry C. Beasley. [U Georgia Press]
Biographical note
[Bibliomania]
Brief biographical note
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia.com]
Brief biographical note
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
Portraits
[National Portrait Gallery, London]


Etexts:
Ferdinand, Count Fathom [1753]
- HTML version (1MB) [Project Gutenberg]
- plain vanilla ASCII version (969K) [Project Gutenberg]
- zipped version (361K) of the above
-- brief overview of the novel [Abacci]


"Tobias Smollet."