“Writing is all a lottery — I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.”
About Tobias George Smollett
c. 19 March 1721–17 September 1771
Tobias George Smollett, baptized on 19 March 1721 and generally believed to have been born shortly before that date, was one of the most forceful, combative, and variously gifted writers of eighteenth-century Britain. He died on 17 September 1771, only about fifty years old, yet in that compressed lifetime he became a…