The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy A Political Romance
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Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. He wrote the novelsThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. He also published many sermons and memoirs. Many people in his family were in the military. Because of this, he traveled in Ireland and England. One of his uncles paid for Sterne to go to the Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He went to Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship. In that college, he got bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1741, he married Elizabeth Lumley.
His satireA Political Romance made the church angry. The book was burnt. Sterne had tuberculosis, so he moved to France. He wrote about his travels to France in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. This book was published a few weeks before he died. He also wrote Journal to Eliza, which was about his romantic feelings for Eliza Draper. This was published after he died. Sterne died in 1768 and was buried at St George's, Hanover Square. His body was stolen and sold to anatomists at Cambridge University. His body was then found and brought back.
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