Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne was born in 1713, the son of an army ensign, and spent his childhood moving from barracks to barracks in Ireland and England, before being for some twenty years an Anglican clergyman in parishes of Yorkshire. The success of his great novel, published in nine volumes from 1759 to 1767, made him a well-known figure in London, where he frequented the salons and sat for Reynolds. He went to France and Italy in search of a climate for his chest, and died in London in 1768, carried off by pleurisy.

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• NovelThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence Sterne · 1759LiteraturePublic domain