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Smollett used the opportunity to deride the social norms of the Kingdom of France and the Italian states, and to voice his Anti-Catholicism. The book inspired a reply in the novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) by Laurence Sterne, which contained a satirical depiction of Smollett as Smelfungus.
Jurnee Diana Smollett was born in New York City, [2] to Janet Harris and Joel Smollett. Her father was Ashkenazi Jewish, with ancestors from Russia and Poland, [3] [4] [5] while her mother is African American. [6] [7] [8] She is the fourth of six siblings, all performers: [9] one sister, Jazz Smollett, [10] and four brothers, Jussie, JoJo, Jake ...
Smelfungus is a character in the novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, written by Laurence Sterne in 1768. The character was created as a satire of Tobias Smollett, himself author of a volume of Travels Through France and Italy, which was published in 1766. Sterne had met Smollett during his own travels in Europe, and strongly ...
Jake portrayed Noser, [9] a character derived from Javier Grillo-Marxuach's [10] comic book. The entire cast of The Middleman sat on the panel for Comic-Con in July 2009. In 2016, Smollett joined his five siblings—brothers Jojo Smollett, Jussie Smollett , Jocqui Smollett and sisters Jazz Smollett and Jurnee Smollett —on Food Network to cook ...
The central character is a villainous dandy who cheats, swindles and philanders his way across Europe and England with little concern for the law or the welfare of others. [1] He is the son of an equally disreputable mother, and Smollett himself comments that "Fathom justifies the proverb, 'What's bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh".
Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ (11 November 1857, Cottesmore, Rutland – 21 October 1914, Roehampton, also known as Mother Janet Stuart, was an English religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She founded a number of schools. Stuart left the Church of England and converted to the Catholic Church in 1879.
Janet Violet Paisley (12 January 1948 – 9 November 2018 [1]) was a writer, poet and playwright from Scotland, writing in Scots and English. [2] Her work has been translated into German, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Italian [ 3 ] and Polish.
[7] [1] She appeared on C-Span in 2005 when she was an official with the National Park Service. [8] In 2009 she returned to the University of Florida, first to teach classes on historic preservation [1] and then to work in the communications regarding historic properties in Florida. [9] Matthews writes about historically-important places.