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Hillingdon Hall or the Cockney Squire: A Tale of Country Life
Hillingdon Hall or the Cockney Squire A Tale of Country Life Author:Surtees, Robert Smith The sporting hero referred to here is the inimitable John Jorrocks. Surtees was writing about Jorrocks as early as 1831 and, as mentioned above, a collection of tales relating to him was gathered together as Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities in 1838. A further Jorrocksian novel, Hillingdon Hall, was serialized in 1843-44. — A great comic character, ... more »on a par with the creations of Dickens, Jorrocks is a self made Cockney grocer with a penchant for fox hunting. Of irrepressible high spirits, the garrulous Jorrocks is a rough diamond.« less