Laurence Sterne
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 Ireland but briefly in England. An uncle paid for Sterne to attend Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as Sterne's father was ordered to Jamaica, where he died of malaria some years later. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire ''A Political Romance'' infuriated the church and was burnt.With his new talent for writing, he published early volumes of his best-known novel, ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman''. Sterne travelled to France to find relief from persistent tuberculosis, documenting his travels in ''A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy'', published weeks before his death. His posthumous ''Journal to Eliza'' addresses Eliza Draper, for whom he had romantic feelings. Sterne died in 1768 and was buried in the yard of St George's, Hanover Square. His body was said to have been stolen after burial and sold to anatomists at Cambridge University, but was recognised and reinterred. His ostensible skull was found in the churchyard and transferred to Coxwold in 1969 by the Laurence Sterne Trust. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1780
Published 1780
Printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Murray, T. Becket, R. Baldwin, and T. Evans
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1795
Published 1795
Printed by Da. Buchanan, Montrose; for R. Morison & Son, booksellers Perth
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1796
Published 1796
Printed for John Creswick and co. and sold by all booksellers in Great Britain
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1765
Published 1765
Printed for W. and W. Smith, G. Faulkner, S. Watson, and T. Williams
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1775
Published 1775
Printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street; and T. Evans, near York-Buildings, Strand
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1747
Published 1747
Printed for J. Hildyard bookseller in Stonegate: and sold by Mess. Knapton, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mess. Longman and Shewell, and M. Cooper, in Pater-noster-Row, London
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1799
Published 1799
printed for C. Bathurst, C. Nourse, T. Carnan, F. Newbery, R. Cater, R. Brotherton, W. Johnstone, P. Valliant, N. Conant, T. Davies, L. Davies, A. Millar, R. Tonson, G. Keith, W. Owen, and L. Hawis
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1783
Published 1783
printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Murray, T. Becket, R. Baldwin, and T. Evans
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1780
Published 1780
printed for W. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; G. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row; J. Murray in Fleet-Street; and T. Evans in the Strand
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by Sterne, Laurence
Published 1769
Published 1769
printed, and sold by J. Murdoch, bookseller, opposite the New Exchange Coffe-House in the Strand