Antrim; and Derry City." In 1724, "shortly before the family's arrival in Derry," Roger took Sterne to his wealthy brother, Richard, so that Laurence could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax.
Laurence never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of malaria in 1731.
Laurence was admitted to a sizarship at Jesus College, in July 1733 at the age of 20.
He graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in January 1737 and returned in the summer of 1740 to be awarded his Master of Arts degree. ===Early career=== Sterne was ordained as a deacon on 6 March 1737 and as a priest on 20 August 1738.
He graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in January 1737 and returned in the summer of 1740 to be awarded his Master of Arts degree. ===Early career=== Sterne was ordained as a deacon on 6 March 1737 and as a priest on 20 August 1738.
He graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in January 1737 and returned in the summer of 1740 to be awarded his Master of Arts degree. ===Early career=== Sterne was ordained as a deacon on 6 March 1737 and as a priest on 20 August 1738.
While he was serving a vicarship at Sutton-on-the-Forest in Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. Sterne's A Political Romance, an ecclesiastical satire, received harsh criticism by the church and was burnt.
Sterne married Elizabeth Lumley on 30 March 1741, despite both being ill with consumption.
He had previously wrote anonymous propaganda for the York Gazetteer from 1741 to 1742.
This falling out occurred after Sterne ended his political career in 1742.
He had previously wrote anonymous propaganda for the York Gazetteer from 1741 to 1742.
He was involved in, and wrote about, local politics in 1742.
In 1743, he was presented to the neighbouring living of Stillington by Rev.
Sterne's early works were letters; he had two sermons published (in 1747 and 1750), and tried his hand at satire.
Sterne's early works were letters; he had two sermons published (in 1747 and 1750), and tried his hand at satire.
Laurence lived in Sutton for twenty years, during which time he kept up an intimacy which had begun at Cambridge with John Hall-Stevenson, a witty and accomplished bon vivant, owner of Skelton Hall in the Cleveland district of Yorkshire. ===Writing=== Sterne wrote a religious satire work called A Political Romance in 1759.
It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his best-known novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759.
He wrote as fast as he possibly could, composing the first 18 chapters between January and March 1759.
A posthumously published piece on the art of preaching, A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais, appears to have been written in 1759.
According to a 1760 anonymous letter, Sterne "hardly knew that he could write at all, much less with humour so as to make his reader laugh".
Sterne's widely publicised response to Sancho's letter became an integral part of 18th-century abolitionist literature. ===Foreign travel=== Sterne continued to struggle with his illness, and departed England for France in 1762 in an effort to find a climate that would alleviate his suffering.
In July 1766 Sterne received Sancho's letter shortly after he had finished writing a conversation between his fictional characters Corporal Trim and his brother Tom in Tristram Shandy, wherein Tom described the oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon which he had visited.
Aspects of this trip to France were incorporated into Sterne's second novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. ===Eliza=== Early in 1767, Sterne met Eliza Draper, the wife of an official of the East India Company, then staying on her own in London.
Laurence Sterne (24 November 171318 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican cleric.
Published posthumously was Journal to Eliza, a collection of his letters to Eliza Draper, a woman for whom Sterne had romantic feelings. Sterne died in 1768 and was buried in the churchyard of St George's, Hanover Square.
To his great distress, Eliza had to return to India three months after their first meeting, and he died from consumption a year later without seeing her again. At the beginning of 1768, Sterne brought out his Sentimental Journey which contains some extravagant references to her, and the relationship, though platonic, aroused considerable interest.
After Sterne's death, Eliza allowed ten of his letters to be published under the title Letters from Yorick to Eliza and succeeded in suppressing her letters to him, though some blatant forgeries were produced, probably by William Combe, in a volume entitled Eliza's Letters to Yorick. ===Death=== Less than a month after Sentimental Journey was published, early in 1768, Sterne died in his lodgings at 41 Old Bond Street on 18 March, at the age of 54.
Yorick volumes 5-7, were published in 1769.) Source ==See also== List of abolitionist forerunners List of Irish writers ==Citations== ==References== == Further reading == René Bosch, Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators (Amsterdam, 2007) W.
His work had also noticeable influence over Brazilian author Machado de Assis, who made use of the digressive technique in the novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. English writer and literary critic Samuel Johnson's verdict in 1776 was that "Nothing odd will do long.
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A second stone was erected in 1893, correcting some factual errors on the memorial stone.
He also wrote his Journal to Eliza part of which he sent to her, and the rest of which came to light when it was presented to the British Museum in 1894.
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Benjamin, Life and Letters (two volumes, 1912) Rousseau, George S.
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His alleged skull was found after the churchyard was redeveloped and was transferred to Coxwold churchyard in 1969 by the Laurence Sterne Trust. ==Biography== ===Early life and education=== Sterne was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary on 24 November 1713.
George's was redeveloped in 1969, amongst 11,500 skulls disinterred, several were identified with drastic cuts from anatomising or a post-mortem examination.
Along with nearby skeletal bones, these remains were transferred to Coxwold churchyard in 1969 by the Laurence Sterne Trust.
Munich: Edited by Günter Jürgensmeier, 2005 The Shandean: A Journal Devoted to the Works of Laurence Sterne (tables of contents available online) Laurence Sterne at the National Portrait Gallery, London The Laurence Sterne Trust Anonymous parodies of the kinds of letters written by Elizabeth Draper to Laurence Sterne (as Yorick), MSS SC 4, L.
Yorick volumes 5-7, were published in 1769.) Source ==See also== List of abolitionist forerunners List of Irish writers ==Citations== ==References== == Further reading == René Bosch, Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators (Amsterdam, 2007) W.
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