Laurence Sterne: The Making of a Humorist, 1713-1762 |
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... Professor Cross cites in his Preface among reliable sources of information is a collection of Anecdotes put together nearly thirty years after Sterne's death by one John Croft , a notorious scandal - monger and gossip . Some of these ...
... Professor Cross cites in his Preface among reliable sources of information is a collection of Anecdotes put together nearly thirty years after Sterne's death by one John Croft , a notorious scandal - monger and gossip . Some of these ...
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... Professor L. P. Curtis , the American editor of Sterne's letters , affirms that Agnes Sterne was the daughter of a Captain Christopher Nuttall , second son of the squire of Tottington Hall , in Lancashire , and , therefore , in birth ...
... Professor L. P. Curtis , the American editor of Sterne's letters , affirms that Agnes Sterne was the daughter of a Captain Christopher Nuttall , second son of the squire of Tottington Hall , in Lancashire , and , therefore , in birth ...
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... Professor Curtis to discover in the Minster Library at York a single copy of the York Gazetteer dated December 15th , 1741 , and to establish that this was the Whig periodical for which Sterne actually wrote . In his monograph on The ...
... Professor Curtis to discover in the Minster Library at York a single copy of the York Gazetteer dated December 15th , 1741 , and to establish that this was the Whig periodical for which Sterne actually wrote . In his monograph on The ...
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