← R. S. SurteesHandley Crossby R. S. SurteesPicaresque sporting novel featuring a hunting lodge and varied charactersFind on Amazon↗About the authorR. S. SurteesSurtees 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.More by R. S. SurteesJorrocks'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→Hawbuck Grange→Ask Mamma→
