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Laurence Sterne

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Laurence Sterne
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760
Portrait bySir Joshua Reynolds, 1760
Born(1713-11-24)24 November 1713
Clonmel, Ireland
Died18 March 1768(1768-03-18) (aged 54)
London, England
OccupationNovelist, clergyman
NationalityBritish
Alma materJesus College, Cambridge
Notable worksThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
A Political Romance
SpouseElizabeth Lumley

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was anAnglo-Irishnovelist andAnglican cleric. He wrote thenovelsThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman andA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. He alsopublished manysermons andmemoirs. Many people in his family were in themilitary. Because of this, he traveled inIreland andEngland. One of hisuncles paid for Sterne to go to theHipperholme Grammar School in theWest Riding of Yorkshire. He went toJesus College, Cambridge on asizarship. In that college, he gotbachelor's andmaster's degrees. In 1741, he married Elizabeth Lumley.

HissatireA Political Romance made thechurch angry. The book wasburnt. Sterne hadtuberculosis, so he moved toFrance. He wrote about his travels to France inA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. This book was published a few weeks before he died. He also wroteJournal to Eliza, which was about hisromantic feelings forEliza Draper. This was published after he died. Sterne died in 1768 and wasburied atSt George's, Hanover Square. His body was stolen and sold toanatomists atCambridge University. His body was then found and brought back.

Books

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  • 1743 –The Unknown World: Verses Occasioned by Hearing a Pass-Bell (disputed, possibly written byHubert Stogdon)[1]
  • 1747 –The Case of Elijah and the Widow of Zerephath
  • 1750 –The Abuses of Conscience
  • 1759 –A Political Romance
  • 1759 –Tristram Shandy vols. 1 and 2
  • 1760 –The Sermons of Mr. Yorick vol. 1 and 2
  • 1761 –Tristram Shandy vols. 3–6
  • 1765 –Tristram Shandy vols. 7 and 8
  • 1766 –The Sermons of Mr. Yorick vols. 3 and 4
  • 1767 –Tristram Shandy vol. 9
  • 1768 –A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
  • 1769 –Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne vols. 5–7 (a continuation ofThe Sermons of Mr. Yorick)[2]

Citations

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  1. New, Melvyn (2011)."'The Unknown World': The Poem Laurence Sterne Did Not Write".Huntington Library Quarterly.74 (1):85–98.doi:10.1525/hlq.2011.74.1.85.JSTOR 10.1525/hlq.2011.74.1.85.
  2. Sterne, Laurence (1851).Works of Laurence Sterne. Bohn.

References

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Further reading

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  • René Bosch,Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators (Amsterdam, 2007)
  • W. M. Thackeray, inEnglish Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1853; new edition, New York, 1911)
  • Percy Fitzgerald,Life of Laurence Sterne (London, 1864; second edition, London, 1896)
  • Paul Stapfer,Laurence Sterne, sa personne et ses ouvrages (second edition, Paris, 1882)
  • H. D. Traill,Laurence Sterne, "English Men of Letters", (London, 1882)
  • H. D. Traill."Sterne". Harper & Brothers Publishers. Retrieved22 March 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  • Texte,Rousseau et le cosmopolitisme littôraire au XVIIIème siècle (Paris, 1895)
  • H. W. Thayer,Laurence Sterne in Germany (New York, 1905)
  • P. E. More,Shelburne Essays (third series, New York, 1905)
  • L. S. Benjamin,Life and Letters (two volumes, 1912)
  • Rousseau, George S. (2004).Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN 1-4039-3454-1

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