"The Journal to Eliza and Various Letters" by Laurence Sterne and Elizabeth Draper is a compilation of private letters and journal entries from the 1700s, exploring the passionate love affair between Sterne and Draper, particularly their feelings during times apart. The collection offers an intimate look at the authors' deepest emotions and reflects the era's views on love and emotion. The journal begins with Sterne heartbroken over Eliza Draper's impending departure to India, conveying his distress through heartfelt thoughts and expressing his intense desire for her. His letters to Eliza are filled with love and longing, using figurative language and spiritual references while acknowledging her life's difficulties. This opening establishes a powerful contrast between their tender affection and the social rules of their time, creating a captivating study of romantic dedication.
The Journal to Eliza and Various letters by Laurence Sterne and Elizabeth Draper
By Laurence Sterne
Experience a forbidden 18th-century romance through personal letters filled with longing, spiritual reflection, and the anguish of separation.
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About the AuthorLaurence Sterne 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. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance infuriated the church and was burnt.
Laurence Sterne 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. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance infuriated the church and was burnt.
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