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observations on men, women, and manners; his entertaining array of eccentrics, rakes, and rogues; his skill in the construction of lively dialogue (a matter over which he took great pains); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases; and above all, his supreme comic masterpiece, Jorrocks, have won him successive generations of devoted followers. Although his proper place among
Victorian novelists is not easy to determine, his power as a creative artist was recognized, among professional writers, by
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Surtees's range was limited, his style often clumsy and colloquial. Even in the better-constructed novels the plots are loose and discursive. Nevertheless, his sharp, authentic descriptions of the hunting field have retained their popularity among fox-hunters.... Among a wider public his mordant
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The coarseness of the text was redeemed in 1854 by the brilliantly humorous illustrations of John Leech, who utilised a sketch of a coachman made in church as his model for the ex-grocer. Some of Leech's best work is to be found among his illustrations to
Surtees's later novels, notably
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In 1835, Surtees abandoned his legal practice and, after inheriting
Hamsterley Hall in 1838, devoted himself to hunting and shooting, meanwhile writing anonymously for his own pleasure. He was a friend and admirer of the great hunting man Ralph Lambton, who had his headquarters at
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Committee, it is considered advisable to raise funds to achieve the above objects, to publish or republish works by other authors, or prints by artists, or other items of a literary artistic
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To republish the works of R. S. Surtees as and when the
Executive Committee considers necessary and is satisfied that demand exists; and to publish or republish any biographical or appreciative material about R. S.
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in 1838. Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public, and
Surtees produced more Jorrocks novels in the same vein, notably
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Victorians deprecated him, Surtees' work has continued to be read long after some of his more popular contemporaries have been forgotten. Gash notes that
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Surtees was not among the most popular novelists in the nineteenth century. His work lacked the self-conscious idealism, sentimentality and moralism of the
Victorian era; the historian
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The R. S. Surtees
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Town and Country Papers (incorporating "Hints to Railway Travellers")
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Gash, Norman (2004). "Surtees, Robert Smith (1805–1864)".
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Jorrocks's England: On the Works of Robert Smith Surtees
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family. He is remembered for his invented character of
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