Jorrocks handbook

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Jorrocks is a Cockney grocer made good, living in London and patronising his beloved Surrey Hunt, and the stories of the book comprise a series of excursions to Newmarket, Paris, Margate, etc.

Occasionally difficult to follow but generally with understandable punchlines, I thought the greater value was in the glimpse the book offers/5. Get this from a library. A Jorrocks handbook; a centenary dictionary of the characters, places, situations, and allusions which occur in the Jorrocks novels and in the short stories by Robert Smith Surtees.

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Robert Smith Surtees (17 May – 16 March ) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.

Robert Smith Surtees, (bornThe Riding, Northumberland, Eng.—died MaBrighton, Sussex), English novelist of the chase and the creator of Mr. Jorrocks, one of the great comic characters of English literature, a Cockney grocer who is as blunt as John Bull and entirely given over to fox hunting.

A younger son, Surtees worked as a lawyer until he. Jorrocks’ was published inthe 18th book on the list. Although originally intended to form a series with Walton’s The Compleat Angler, the Society later decided to publish the remaining Surtees novels in a similar jacket design, and the link to The Compleat Angler was removed and the Surtees novels became the first single author series published.

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This vintage book contains a novella written by R. Surtees and first published in A witty and entertaining story based around fox hunting, "Jorrocks on 'unting" is highly recommended for readers with an interest in the sport, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related :   Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities (Barnes & Noble Digital John Jorrocks—a “renowned sporting citizen”—is the first character created by English comic writer Robert Smith Surtees.

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This successful huntsman and grocer's praises are even sung by the men in his tea warehouse. They also chorus the charms of his niece and ward, Belinda. The domineering Mrs. Jorrocks, however, finds her husband's.

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Contains pages, a glossary, identification guides and index. A Jorrocks handbook; a centenary dictionary of the characters, places, situations, and allusions which occur in the Jorrocks novels and in the short stories by Robert Smith Surtees by Robert Lewis Collison (Book).

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