Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was baptised <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a>, 19 March.</p><p>George Orwell thought him “Scotland’s best novelist”, “whose outstanding intellectual honesty may have been connected with the fact that he was not an Englishman” (Tribune, 22/9/1944)</p><p>1/5</p><p><a href="https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/smollett/english/e_ts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">orwell.ru/library/reviews/smol</span><span class="invisible">lett/english/e_ts</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Smollett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smollett</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/18thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwell</span></a></p>