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1.3 Written works
Smollett's first published work in 1746,[1] was a poem about the Battle of Culloden entitled "The Tears of Scotland",[1] but it was The Adventures of Roderick Random, a semi-autobiogaphical story of a' north Britain on the make'[1] which made his name. His poetry was described as "delicate, sweet and murmurs as a stream."[3] The Adventures of Roderick Random was modelled on Le Sage's Gil Blas and despite its scandalous content covering 'snobbery, prostitution, debt and hinting at homosexuality', it was published[1] in 1748. After that, Smollett finally had his tragedy The Regicide published, although it was never performed.
In 1750, he travelled to France, where he obtained material for his second novel, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, another success. Having lived for a brief time in Bath, he returned to London and published The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom in 1753, but this did not sell well and he went into debt. His novels were published by the well-known London bookseller Andrew Millar.[4] Smollett became considered as a 'man of letters'[1] and associated with such figures as David Garrick, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith,[1] and Samuel Johnson, [1] whom he famously nicknamed "that Great Cham of literature".[5]
In 1755 he published an English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, which he revised in 1761. In 1756, he became briefly editor of the 58-volume Universal History, and editor of The Critical Review, from which later he had a successful libel case brought against him by Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, and a three month prison sentence, and fine of £100.[1]
Portrait of Tobias Smollett by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, ca. 1764
Smollett then began what he regarded as his major work, A Complete History of England (1757–1765) which helped recoup his finances,[1] along with profits from his only performed play, a farce, The Reprisal of the Tars of Old England. After his imprisonment, he used the experience in producing another novel, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1760).[1]
In 1763, Smollett was ill, perhaps with tuberculosis, and suffered the loss of his only child at the age of 15. He gave up his editorships and with his wife Nancy went to Europe, which led to the publication of Travels Through France and Italy (1766).[1] He also published The History and Adventures of an Atom (1769), which gave his opinion of British politics during the Seven Years' War in the guise of a tale from ancient Japan. In 1768, the year he moved to Italy, Smollett entrusted Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore with selling off the slaves he still owned in Jamaica.[6]
A further visit to Scotland helped to inspire his last novel, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), published in the year of his death. He had for some time been suffering from an intestinal disorder. Having sought a cure at Bath,[citation needed] he retired to Italy, where he died in September 1771 and was buried in the Old English Cemetery, Livorno.[1]