![]() Writing poems, plays, travel and history books, essays, satires, doing translations and even becoming a literary critic and magazine editor, Dr. Publishing The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1762) didn't help. But the failure of The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) caused financial difficulties for him. It was followed by The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in 1751. The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), a picaresque novel - like most of his books - made him a well known author. In London, as a writer, he became successful. He married a British woman Anne Lascelles, in Jamaica, 1747,and settled in England. ![]() He was present at the disastrous battle against the Spanish at Cartagena in 1741. Later he joined the British Royal Navy as a surgeon's mate. ![]() Tobias George Smollett was born in Dalquhurn, now part of Renton, Scotland, to a prosperous family and educated at the University of Glasgow, where he studied to be a physician. ![]()
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