Introduction

Biography

John was the son of Ed­ward Ster­ling, and hus­band of Su­san­nah Bar­ton.

He at­tend­ed Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty and went on to a ca­reer as au­thor and cri­tic. In 1828, he and F. D. Mau­rice bought the Athe­næ­um, but kept the pub­li­ca­tion on­ly six months.

Sterling’s works in­clude:

• Arthur Con­ings­by (Lon­don: Ef­fing­ham Wil­son, 1833)
• Po­ems (Lon­don: Ed­ward Mox­on, 1839)
• Strafford, a Tra­ge­dy (Lon­don: Ed­ward Mox­on, 1843)

Julius Hare ed­it­ed Ster­ling’s works in 1848, and Ster­ling’s friend Tho­mas Car­lyle wrote his bio­gra­phy in 1851.