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His father, Roger Sterne, was an army officer, and his mother, Agnes, was the daughter of a traveling army supplier. The family traveled a great deal, and when he was ten, Sterne was sent to Hipperholme, England.

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In he received an M. At this time he experienced a hemorrhage in his lungs and contracted incurable tuberculosis. He married Elizabeth Lumley in and began his career as a writer not long after. Only one child survived to adulthood, and the marriage was generally unhappy. Sterne was known for multiple extramarital affairs. About a decade or so later he published A Political Romance , which satirized a corrupt local official named Francis Topham.

The work was in the style of Jonathan Swift. That same year Sterne published Tristram Shandy in two volumes; the initial printing was small but it immediately garnered fame and attention.

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Within months Sterne was lionized, traveling to London and having Joshua Reynolds paint his portrait. In Sterne published Sermons of Mr. Over the next several years Sterne issued more volumes of Tristram Shandy and spent time in Paris to seek improvement in his health. His time on the continent led to A Sentimental Journey Seen as scandalous, it was not published in his lifetime.