Robert Smith Surtees

Standard Name: Surtees, Robert Smith
Indexed Name: Robert Smith Surtees, 1805 - 1864

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Marsh
Heathside Farm stands in Eastbury, Hertfordshire, as did AM 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...

Timeline

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.