Laurence Sterne
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Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and clergyman, born in Clonmel, Ireland, the son of an army officer, and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained in the Church of England and spent some twenty years as a country parson near York, little known outside his parish. In 1759, at the age of forty-six, he published the first two volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and became a celebrity in London almost overnight. Seven more volumes followed over the next eight years, along with collections of his sermons, published as The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Suffering from tuberculosis, he travelled in France and Italy for his health, journeys that led to A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768). He died in London a few weeks after it appeared.
