← R. S. SurteesMr Sponge's Sporting Tourby R. S. SurteesSporting novel following a penniless gentleman's adventures on horsebackFind 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→Handley CrossPicaresque sporting novel featuring a hunting lodge and varied characters→Hawbuck Grange→Ask Mamma→
