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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.
In 1741, Laurence Sterne married Elizabeth Lumley, who was a cousin to Elizabeth Montagu, the leader of the Bluestockings.1