In the 1840s he often based works on the literary output of writers such as Charles Dickens, whose portrait he painted, and Laurence Sterne.

* Parson Yorick, a character devised by the author Laurence Sterne

The sentimental key in which the book is written shows the author's acquaintance with Sterne and Richardson, but he had neither the humour of Sterne nor the subtle insight into character of Richardson.

* Adler ( comics ), Luftwaffe pilot turned adventurer, the title character of a comic book series by René Sterne

In his multi-volume novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ( 1759-1767 ), Laurence Sterne has his character Corporal Trim describe a Beguine.

Laurence Sterne, who met Smollett in Italy, satirized Smollett's jaundiced attitude in the character of Smelfungus in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, which was written in part as an answer to Smollett's book.

* Silas Sterne, children's book character in The Day My Bum Went Psycho ( 2001 )

It was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

Roger's regiment was disbanded on the day of Sterne ’ s birth, and within six months the family had returned to Yorkshire in northern England.

It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his most famous novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759.

Sterne was at work on his celebrated comic novel during the year that his mother died, his wife was seriously ill, and he was ill himself with consumption.

The publication of Tristram Shandy made Sterne famous in London and on the continent.

Sterne did not begin work on Tristram Shandy until he was 46 years old.

* Useful Articles on Laurence Sterne, available online

The performance was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

Laurence Sterne ruminated on the possibilities of Momus ' window into the soul in a typical rambling excursus in Tristram Shandy.

* Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy: ruminations on Momus ' windows of glass, in Volume 1, chapter 23 ( text )

In 1922 he published his first book, Masques and Poems. This was followed by many other volumes, particularly his Four Portraits of 1945 ( studies of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne, and Wilkes ), books on London and works on Baudelaire ( 1929 ), Byron ( 1934 – 35 ), Pope ( 1949 ), Ruskin ( 1949 ), Hogarth ( 1955 ), Shakespeare ( 1963 ), Proust ( 1971 ) and Dr Johnson ( 1972 ).

The route of the chase is as follows: Senior Street W2, Clarendon Crescent W2, Harrow Road W9, Ladbroke Grove W10, Portobello Road W11, Ladbroke Grove W10, Royal Crescent W10, Portland Road W10, Penzance Place W10, Freston Road W10, Hythe Road NW10, Sterne Street W12-then a chase on foot into Wood Lane and then to White City Stadium.

Contentiously, Leavis, and his followers, excluded major authors such as Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne and Thomas Hardy from his canon, but eventually he changed his position on Dickens, publishing Dickens the Novelist in 1970.

* Arthur H. Cash – SUNY Distinguished Professor and professor emeritus of English ; authority on Laurence Sterne

He wrote several books, including Life and Times of Laurence Sterne ( 1909 ) and The History of Henry Fielding ( 1918 ), and several books on the English novel.

When Charterite Tyrone Yates became a Democrat in preparation for running for the state legislature, Sterne found herself again the sole Charterite on the council.

In 1664 he was elected bishop of Carlisle, on the translation of Dr. Richard Sterne to York.

The first volume, titled Le Manuscript de Nicodemus ( The Manuscript of Nicodemus ), was drawn by René Sterne who suddenly died on November 15, 2006, delaying the publication of the book.

From 1642 Richard Sterne held the rectory of Yeovilton before going on to become Archbishop of York.

In the mid 18th century, the authors Laurence Sterne and John Hall-Stevenson enjoyed racing chariots on the sands at Saltburn.

The villagers ' cottages are on the slope, and at the top is St Michael's church, to which Sterne was appointed vicar in 1760.

Sterne ’ s life at this time was closely tied with his uncle, Dr. Jaques Sterne, the Archdeacon of Cleveland and Precentor of York Minster.

Dr Ernst Krause also known under the pen-name Carus Sterne ( 22 November 1839 in

It is also the home of prominent local GP, Dr Austin Sterne.

Dr. Jonathan Sterne of McGill University stated, " Narrowcasting is a form of broadcasting, if the latter term is understood as the ' wide dissemination of content through mechanical or electronic media '.

Sterne lived in Sutton for twenty years, during which time he kept up an intimacy which had begun at Cambridge with John Hall-Stevenson, a witty and accomplished bon vivant, owner of Skelton Hall in the Cleveland district of Yorkshire.

The screenplay was written by West and C. Gardner Sullivan, who adapted the 1927 Broadway stage play, Nightstick, written by Elaine Sterne Carrington, J. C. Nugent, Elliott Nugent and John Wray.

In the village there is Elvington Hall, built during Elizabethan times and remodelled in the 18th century by John Carr ; famous writer Laurence Sterne lived there for a period of his childhood ; Roger Jacques and Simone Sterne, his grandparents, controlled the manor prior to 1700.

The salon was also visited by prominent British intellectuals, amongst them Adam Smith, David Hume, John Wilkes, Horace Walpole, Edward Gibbon, David Garrick, Laurence Sterne, and one American — Benjamin Franklin.

* Four Portraits: Studies of the Eighteenth Century-James Boswell, Edward Gibbon, Laurence Sterne, John Wilkes ( 1945 )

* 2011 in art-Death of B. H. Friedman, Ellen Stewart, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles O. Perry, Roy Gussow, Alan Uglow, Suze Rotolo, Gabriel Laderman, Leo Steinberg, George Tooker, Hedda Sterne, John McCracken, Leonora Carrington, Claudio Bravo, M. F. Husain, Jack Smith, Thomas N. Armstrong III, Robert Miller, Cy Twombly, Lucian Freud, John Hoyland, Budd Hopkins, Jeanette Ingberman, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Mueller, Pat Passlof, Gerald Laing, John Chamberlain, Helen Frankenthaler

Willard Sterne Randall's biography Alexander Hamilton: A Life, gives some details about Major John Andre in reference to some time before his capture ( as Hamilton's wife had an interest in André prior to her marriage ) and his execution.

Images by John Baldessari, text by Laurence Sterne, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA.

Because Sterne died before he could finish the novel, his long time friend John Hall-Stevenson ( who is also identified with the name Eugenius in the novel ) wrote a continuation.

He directed the production of a vast work on Social England in 1893-1898 ; he wrote, for several series of biographies, studies of Coleridge ( 1884 ), Sterne ( 1882 ), William III ( 1888 ), Shaftesbury ( 1886 ), Strafford ( 1889 ), and Lord Salisbury ( 1891 ); he compiled a biography of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer ( 1896 ); and after a visit to Egypt he published a volume on the country, and in 1897 appeared his book on Lord Cromer, the man who had done so much to bring it back to prosperity.