Sterne

"Sterne" by H. D. Traill is a biographical exploration of Laurence Sterne, a celebrated 18th-century English writer, that looks at the elements that made Sterne who he was. It starts with Sterne's birth in 1713 into a military family and discusses his childhood, marked by constant movement and the family's hardships due to his father's military career. The narrative seeks to find links between Sterne’s dramatic youth and his later literary works. Traill emphasizes the scarcity of detailed information on Sterne's life, yet aims to shed light on the formative influences that underpinned Sterne's unique creativity and literary contributions, creating a portrait of a man whose early life shaped his unique contribution to literature. The author's goal is to give people with an interest in literary history a peek into the world that helped to make one of the most important figures in English literature by bringing out the important relationships with his mother and father.