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Laurence Sterne

1713 - 1768

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Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family, travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly in England. An uncle paid for Sterne to attend Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as Sterne's father was ordered to Jamaica, where he died of malaria some years later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurence Sterne has received more than 753,015 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Laurence Sterne is the 540th most popular writer (down from 483rd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Ireland and the 8th most popular Irish Writer.

Laurence Sterne is most famous for his novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."

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  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Laurence Sterne ranks 540 out of 5,755. Before him are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Washington Irving, Eugene O'Neill, Erich Kästner, Marie-Antoine Carême, and Ivan Bunin. After him are Kazuo Ishiguro, Wilbur Smith, Alfred Jarry, Aulus Gellius, Gaius Julius Hyginus, and A. A. Milne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1713, Laurence Sterne ranks 3. Before him are Denis Diderot and Ferdinand VI of Spain. After him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Alexis Clairaut, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Junípero Serra, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, and John Needham. Among people deceased in 1768, Laurence Sterne ranks 4. Before him are Marie Leszczyńska, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Canaletto. After him are Nicola Porpora, Georg Brandt, Francesco Maria Veracini, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Laurence Sterne ranks 21 out of 501. Before him are Francis Bacon (1909), John Scotus Eriugena (810), Richard Harris (1930), Anne Bonny (1702), W. B. Yeats (1865), and Ernest Shackleton (1874). After him are Enya (1961), Michael Collins (1890), Columbanus (540), Michael D. Higgins (1941), John Field (1782), and Joseph Murphy (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Laurence Sterne ranks 8. Before him are James Joyce (1882), Jonathan Swift (1667), George Bernard Shaw (1856), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), and W. B. Yeats (1865). After him are Joseph Murphy (1898), Saint Gall (550), Iris Murdoch (1919), Ethel Voynich (1864), Thomas Moore (1779), and Christy Brown (1932).

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