Sir Leslie Stephen

Standard Name: Stephen, Sir Leslie

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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 .
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
104, 35
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
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
Her habit of voracious...
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 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
Mark Hussey writes that he was, after Matthew Arnold
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
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
Julia Stephen had three children from her first marriage...
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
Her friends Julia Duckworth and Leslie Stephen , who married the next year, were...
Friends, Associates Millicent Garrett Fawcett
During these years she met some leading liberal thinkers, such as John Stuart Mill (whom she heard in the House as he moved his suffrage amendment to the Reform Bill on 20 May 1867, less...
Friends, Associates George Meredith
GM knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Swinburne —he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood , Lucie Duff Gordon , Leslie Stephen , Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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
When ST 's parents and Leslie Stephen tried to nurture a childhood friendship between Susan, Vanessa (later Bell), and Virginia (later Woolf), the relationship never took root. As an adult, however (having admired Woolf's early...

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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,...

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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.
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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.