Quotes:Sterne, Laurence

Zirkoff, Boris

Sterne, Laurence. English humourist, b. at Clonmel, Ireland, Nov. 24, 1713; d. in London, March 18, 1768. For ten years the boy and his mother moved from place to place with the regiment of his father. Went to school at Halifax in Yorkshire, then was sent to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took his degree, 1736. Through the influence of his uncle, canon of York, he obtained, 1738, the living of Sutton-in-the Forest, pear York; this was his residence for twenty uneventful years. He suddenly leaped to fame with the first volumes of Tristram Shandy, published Jan. 1, 1760. He continued to build up the history of the Shandy family through several succeeding volumes, the ninth and last appearing in 1767. He also published two volumes entitled The Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 10, p. 427