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Who was John Hall-Stevenson in Laurence Sterne's life and fiction?
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Laurence Sterne
Novelist Laurence Sterne, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
John Hall-Stevenson was a great friend of the Irish-born English novelist Laurence Sterne. The two men met while Sterne was attending Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.1
In Sterneās fiction, Hall-Stevenson served as the inspiration for the character Eugenius, who appears in Sterne's famous novel, Tristram Shandy.1