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Tobias George Smollett (1721–1771) was a Scottish poet and author.
One of his best-known books, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), depicts one of the first explicity gay characters in English Literature, Earl Strutwell, "notorious for a passion for his own sex".[1]
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References
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- ↑ David Leavitt, introduction to the Penguin edition of E M Forster's Maurice, page xxxii.