Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne was born in 1713 in Clonmel, Ireland, the son of an English army officer, and spent his early childhood moving between army barracks in Ireland and England. He was sent to school in Yorkshire and studied at Jesus College, Cambridge. He became a clergyman of the Church of England and for many years was the vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, near York. In 1741 he married Elizabeth Lumley. In 1759 he began publishing The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which appeared in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767. The narrator tries to tell the story of his life but keeps wandering off into digressions, so that he is not even born until the third volume; the book also plays with the printed page itself, including a black page and a marbled page. It made Sterne famous in London. He suffered from tuberculosis and traveled to France and Italy for his health, which inspired A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768). He died in London that year.

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Faith: Anglo-Irish Anglican clergyman, described as holding the moderate (latitudinarian) Anglicanism of his time. Source: Wikipedia