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'''Tobias George Smollett''' (1721–1771) was a Scottish poet and author. | '''Tobias George Smollett''' (1721–1771) was a Scottish poet and author. | ||
One of his best-known books, ''The Adventures of Roderick Random'', depicts one of the first explicity gay characters in English Literature, [[Earl Strutwell]], "notorious for a passion for his own sex".<ref>David Leavitt, introduction to the Penguin edition of E M Forster's ''Maurice'', page xxxii.</ref> | 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".<ref>David Leavitt, introduction to the Penguin edition of E M Forster's ''Maurice'', page xxxii.</ref> | ||
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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]
This article is a stub. You can help the UK LGBT History Project by expanding it.
References
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- ↑ David Leavitt, introduction to the Penguin edition of E M Forster's Maurice, page xxxii.