R. S. Surtees
Surtees was a sporting journalist and novelist whose Jorrocks series created one of the great comic characters of Victorian fiction in the cockney grocer-sportsman John Jorrocks. His fox-hunting comedies are unique documents of Victorian rural life.
Works
- Jorrocks's Jaunts and JollitiesHumorous sporting novel about a Yorkshire hunting enthusiast's escapades
- Mr Sponge's Sporting TourSporting novel following a penniless gentleman's adventures on horseback
- Handley CrossPicaresque sporting novel featuring a hunting lodge and varied characters
- Hawbuck Grange
- Ask Mamma