Thomas Skinner Surr (1770-1847) was an English novelist whose most famous work was A Winter in London (1806). This popular tale of fashionable London life initiated a small genre of "season novels" and influenced silver fork novels in the 1820s and 1830s.

Life

Surr's father was the grocer John Surr; his mother Elizabeth ( Skinner) was the sister of alderman Thomas Skinner, who was Mayor of London in 1794.

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