Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
104, 35
Sir Leslie Stephen
Standard Name: Stephen, Sir Leslie
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Virginia Woolf | Adeline Virginia Stephen, later VW
, was born at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London, the third of the four children of Sir Leslie Stephen
and Julia Prinsep Stephen
. |
| Education | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Stephen (later VW
) was reading widely and almost without restriction in her father
's library. This was to have a profound impact on her creative and critical work. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols. 1: 50-1 Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989. 1 |
| Education | Virginia Woolf | Allowed uncensored access to her father's library, she made rich use of it. Leslie Stephen
once commented to himself that Ginia is devouring books, almost faster than I like. qtd. in Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols. 1: 51 |
| Education | Dorothy Bussy | Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre
. Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen
, VW
's father, died of bowel cancer. He had become ill in 1900, and his slow decline was very hard on his children; Virginia's second serious bout of mental illness followed shortly afterwards. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995. 377 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 172 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Minny
, sister of Anne Thackeray
(later ATR
) married Leslie Stephen
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 159 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's sister Minny
(wife of Leslie Stephen
), who was pregnant for the fourth time, died of eclampsia. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 164 Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages. xxv Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Harriet Marian Stephen |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | A sister, Jane, born in July 1838, died at the age of nine months. ATR
's second sister, Harriet Marian
or Minny, who did survive, was three years her junior. ATR
tried to fill... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's father, Sir Leslie Stephen
(1832-1904), was a Victorian philosopher and historian of ideas . . . literary historian and critic, and—perhaps most important—a biographer. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32-56. 36 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen
's daughter from his previous marriage, Laura
(1868-1934), suffered from some form of mental disability and lived most of her life in institutions. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 74 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | She was forty to his twenty-two. He left Cambridge and took the India Office job in order to marry her. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages. 171 |
| Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | MO
's family and Ritchie went on together to Grindelwald, where Leslie
and Harriet Stephen
(nicknamed Minnie), Ritchie's sister and brother-in-law, joined them. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986. 104-5 Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986. 120 |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
lived with the Stephens
after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith
, Henry James
(who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)... |
Timeline
28 November 1832: Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf,...
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28 November 1832
Leslie Stephen
, father of Virginia Woolf
, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, editor of Cornhill Magazine, biographer, and agnostic, was born.
Annan, Noel. Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian. Random House, 1984.
5, 10, 52, 66, 83-8, 301
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
24 April 1869: Leslie Stephen (later Virginia Woolf's father)...
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24 April 1869
Leslie Stephen
(later Virginia Woolf
's father) published in the Saturday Review an unsigned response to W. R. Greg
, entitled The Redundancy of Women.
Saturday Review. Chawton.
(1869): 544-6
Annan, Noel. Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
295
By 10 January 1885: Publication of the Dictionary of National...
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By 10 January 1885
Publication of the Dictionary of National Biography began, under the editorship of Sir Leslie Stephen
.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2985 (1885): 43
April 1891: Sidney Lee (born Solomon Lazarus Levi, later...
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April 1891
Sidney Lee
(born Solomon Lazarus Levi
, later knighted) became editor of the Dictionary of National Biography; he had become an assistant editor in 1883 and joint editor with Leslie Stephen
in 1890.
Stewart, Alan. “Solomon Lazarus Levi and Dr Roderigo Lopez”. Early Modern Lives: Biography and Autobiography, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century, London, 27 June 2002.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1897: With her publication of Grains of Sense,...
Women writers item
1897
With her publication of Grains of Sense, philosopher Victoria, Lady Welby
, shifted from theology towards a more academic and analytic study of meaning.
Smith, Sean, archivist. “Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Lady Welby, Oct. 16, 1907”. York University: York University Gazette online: From the archives, 26 Jan. 2000.
Myers, William Andrew. “Victoria, Lady Welby 1837-1912”. Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-Today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 1-24.
4
1900: Sir Leslie Stephen published The English...
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1900
Sir Leslie Stephen
published The English Utilitarians, a three-volume study of Jeremy Bentham
, James Mill
, and John Stuart Mill
.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Texts
Veley, Margaret, and Sir Leslie Stephen. A Marriage of Shadows. Smith, Elder, 1888.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, 1888, p. vii - xxiv.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908, 22 vols. plus supplements.