Talk:Laurence Sterne
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[edit] Spelling
The Wikipedia article "Lawrence Sterne" must be removed or redirected (linked) to the "Laurence Sterne" article. I don't know how to remove pages completely or make aliases. Whoever knows how to do it, please do it. The spelling of the author's first name as "Lawrence" is wrong or at least not commonly accepted.
Is he spelled "Laurence" or "Lawrence"? Stern 23:59, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
According to the Times Literary Supplement for July 7th 2006 (review of Yochai Benkler's Wealth of Nations) "The entry for Laurence Sterne ... contains passages lifted without acknowledgement from the 1828 periodical The Mirror for Nature and from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, not because either passage is insightful (neither is), but presumably because both texts are online. The use of the Brtitannica leads this up-to-the-minute internet encyclopedia to list only one book published after 1912 among the dozen books suggested for further reading on Sterne." I note that one reference has been added since this article was published. But does it make sense to retain antique references to books that are probably no longer available? --RichardVeryard 08:29, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anglo-Irish?
Sterne was not Anglo-Irish, he was just born in Ireland, where his father was stationed. Anglo-Irish implies something quite different. Sterne was, so far as one can tell from this article, an Englishman. john k 16:49, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Well, he was far less Irish than Swift was. Laurence never wished to be identified as Irish, but there is a small connection, if only to list him as one of many English writers who visited Ireland/experienced Ireland and were bitter from it (Trollope seems to be the exception, except that Thackery makes some nice comments in regard to Ireland). Ottava Rima (talk) 05:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Mention in the media
There's a good article in First Monday, which mentions this page and some issues with it. It would probably be worth taking a look. Cheers. Cormaggio is learning 11:05, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mistreated His Wife?
That hardly seems to fully be the case after reading numerous printed biographical records. At the most ungenerous, it seems the two simply had a "tumultuous" marriage. In any case, those lines absolutely do not belong under the subject heading "Works;" they belong under "Biography," and they are completely a propos of nothing before or after excepting the lame joke. I have removed them for the time ("Citation Needed" or no, it is neither the appropriate place in the article nor the type of thing that should be said without citation); please discuss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.129.139 (talk) 06:55, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
