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Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family, travelling mainly in ...
Laurence Sterne was an Irish-born English novelist and humorist. He is best known as the author of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), a novel in which story is subordinate to the free associations and digressions of its narrator. He is also known for the novel A Sentimental Journey (1768).
Laurence Sterne - Novels, Satire, Humor: Sterne’s novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman was published in nine slim volumes (released in five installments) from 1759 to 1767. In it the narrator, Tristram, sets out to do the impossible—to tell the story of his life.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768): writer, humourist, sentimentalist & clergyman. Laurence Sterne was born in Clonmel, Ireland in 1713, son of an army ensign. During his first ten years the family moved from barracks to barracks.
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Laurence Sterne, (born Nov. 24, 1713, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ire.—died March 18, 1768, London, Eng.), English novelist and humorist. Sterne was a clergyman in York for many years before his talents became apparent when he wrote a Swiftian satire in support of his dean in a church squabble.
Sep 20, 2012 · The scholarly edition of Sterne’s forty-five published sermons and an immense collection of annotations, many of them revealing Sterne’s numerous debts to and borrowings from earlier authors of sermons. An aim of the edition is to assert Sterne’s conventionality as an Anglican sermonist. Sterne, Laurence.
Laurence Sterne’s life, milieu, and literary career; By Ian Campbell Ross; Edited by Thomas Keymer, University of Oxford; Book: The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne; Online publication: 28 January 2010; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521849722.002
Laurence Sterne was just a country clergyman… until he wrote Tristram Shandy. The book was so original (and scandalous) that he shot to fame. Within a few months his portrait had been painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds (the foremost portrait painter of the day), and his presence was sought at the London houses of the rich and fashionable.
Laurence Sterne, born in Ireland in 1713 and a former student of Jesus College, Cambridge, had lived in relative obscurity as a Yorkshire clergyman before The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman first appeared in London in 1760, making its author an instant celebrity.
