Tristram

Goldin and her supporters joined the protest, organised by the group Pain, which unfurled banners calling for the museum’s director, the former Labour MP Tristram Hunt, to drop all associations with the Sackler name.

His novel, a humorously rich satire regarding Tristram Shandy’s life story, is aloft with references to philosophical theories and allusions reminiscent of 17th-century metaphysical poets.

They include Tristram Hunt and Jamie Reed who quit Parliament entirely to take up new jobs.

In 2014, Tristram Hunt, then Labour shadow minister for education, that private schools should lose some of their business-rate relief if they didn’t form more meaningful partnerships with state schools.

Although the story is more straightforward, A Sentimental Journey can be understood to be part of the same artistic project to which Tristram Shandy belongs.

Escorts would be provided for this day, after which Sir Tristram would be left to unload using a Mexeflote (a powered raft) for as long as it took to finish.

H. Tristram, "Why Don't the English Speak Welsh?", in Higham (ed.

Italo Calvino referred to Tristram Shandy as the "undoubted progenitor of all avant-garde novels of our century".

Sterne's novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman sold widely in England and throughout Europe.

Sterne was gratified by his reception in France where reports of the genius of Tristram Shandy had made him a celebrity.

The book has many stylistic parallels with Tristram Shandy, and indeed, the narrator is one of the minor characters from the earlier novel.

The novel itself starts with the narration, by Tristram, of his own conception.

Two volumes of Sterne's Sermons were published during his lifetime; more copies of his Sermons were sold in his lifetime than copies of Tristram Shandy, and for a while he was better known in some circles as a preacher than as a novelist.