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and her husband's own grander house and farm; the leading characters are a yeoman farmer, Harry Thornton, and orphan Lilias Davison, cousin of Thornton's grumpy...
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17 May 1803
Robert Smith Surtees
, sporting novelist, was born in Durham.
1840-41
Robert Smith Surtees
's Handley Cross was serialised in the New Sporting Magazine; it appeared in three volumes in 1843.
January 1849-April 1851
Robert Smith Surtees
' fox-hunting novelMr Sponge's Sporting Tour was serialised in the New Monthly Magazine; it appeared in one volume in 1853.
16 March 1864
Robert Smith Surtees
, sporting novelist, died in Brighton, East Sussex.