Laurence Sterne

Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare , Molière , and Sterne . Yet she...

After Elinor Sutherland (later EG ) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather 's book collection, which had recently...

She read extensively as a child, and came early to authors as diverse as Jane Austen , George Eliot , Margaret Oliphant , Henry Fielding , Laurence Sterne , Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Writing by SJD suggests that some of her early reading included Sterne and Defoe . She also had access to Blackwood's and the Cornhill Magazine, and romantic novels by Mary Cecil Hay and Mary Jane Holmes .

The future MR was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton , Pope , Spenser , Shakespeare ...

Foscolo read Petrarch and Sterne together with Hamilton's daughter Sophia. Then he seduced her, and went back to Italy leaving her pregnant. The baby was called Mary after her grandmother, and stayed with Lady Mary...

The paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy were mostly landscapes; it may not be fanciful to see the influence of his marriage in the two titles he showed (for the first time) in 1819:...

EKM 's representation by her husband's second wife as a pathetic victim, idealistic but foolish and untalented, paved the way for Virginia Woolf 's portrait. Woolf seized on details given by Anne Mathews: the best...

EGF had met novelist Laurence Sterne and botanist-physician John Fothergill in London. Among her large circle of friends at home, other writers were prominent. She knew the poet Nathaniel Evans and the physician and educator...

Henry Dellmore remains throughout his picaresque adventures innocent, if not chaste. After being (it seems) seduced by the rector's daughter he suffers agonies of guilt because he does not feel he can bring himself to...

Her ordinary working-class family here (quite the same as everyone else) consists of Henry and Lorna Tripp, their three children and their elders. She makes Angela, the character most like herself, a purposely...

In the central plot a number of lives are ruined by the fact that a generation ago an upper-class rake, James Neville, has fathered various children by different women, most of them illegitimate, who have...

In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with...

WM heads her essay with a quotation from Laurence Sterne 's Tristram Shandy: Methinks, brother, replied my father, you might, at least, know so much as the right end of a woman from the...

The hero of this episodic novel, a happily married curate with three children to bring up on £80 a year, and repining on their behalf at his poverty, takes Sentimental Rambles in Hyde...