28 Facts About Lawrence Sterne

Lawrence Sterne grew up in a military family travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly in England.

Lawrence Sterne attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees.

Lawrence 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.

Lawrence Sterne died in 1768 and was buried in the yard of St George's, Hanover Square.

Lawrence Sterne's body was said to have been stolen after burial and sold to anatomists at Cambridge University, but recognised and reinterred.

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Lawrence Sterne's father, Roger Sterne, was an ensign in a British regiment recently returned from Dunkirk.

Roger Lawrence Sterne left his family and enlisted in the army at the age of 25; he enlisted uncommissioned, which was unusual for someone from a family of high social position.

Roger Lawrence Sterne married Agnes Hobert, the widow of a military captain.

Lawrence Sterne's religion is said to have been the "centrist Anglicanism of his time", known as "latitudinarianism".

Lawrence Sterne had previously written anonymous propaganda for the York Gazetteer from 1741 to 1742.

Lawrence Sterne wrote a religious satire work called A Political Romance in 1759.

At the age of 46, Lawrence Sterne dedicated himself to writing for the rest of his life.

Lawrence Sterne was at work on his celebrated comic novel during the year that his mother died, his wife was seriously ill, and his daughter was taken ill with a fever.

In 1766, at the height of the debate about slavery, the composer and former slave Ignatius Sancho wrote to Lawrence Sterne encouraging him to use his pen to lobby for the abolition of the slave trade.

Lawrence Sterne's widely publicised response to Sancho's letter became an integral part of 18th-century abolitionist literature.

Lawrence 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.

Lawrence Sterne was lucky to attach himself to a diplomatic party bound for Turin, as England and France were still adversaries in the Seven Years' War.

Lawrence Sterne was gratified by his reception in France, where reports of the genius of Tristram Shandy had made him a celebrity.

Lawrence Sterne was quickly captivated by Eliza's charm, vivacity, and intelligence, and she did little to discourage the attentions of such a celebrated man.

Early in 1768, Lawrence Sterne brought out his Sentimental Journey, which contains some extravagant references to her, and the relationship, though platonic, aroused considerable interest.

Lawrence Sterne 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.

Works of Laurence Lawrence Sterne are few in comparison to other eighteenth-century authors of comparable stature.

Lawrence Sterne was involved in, and wrote about, local politics in 1742.

Translations of the work began to appear in all the major European languages almost upon its publication, and Lawrence Sterne influenced European writers as diverse as Denis Diderot and the German Romanticists.

Lawrence Sterne's work had noticeable influence over Brazilian author Machado de Assis, who made use of the digressive technique in the novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.

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Lawrence Sterne urges Pitt to retreat with the book from the cares of statecraft.

Many of the innovations that Lawrence Sterne introduced, adaptations in form that were an exploration of what constitutes the novel, were highly influential to Modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and more contemporary writers such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace.

Two volumes of Lawrence Sterne's Sermons were published during his lifetime; more copies of his Sermons were sold in his lifetime than copies of Tristram Shandy.