Sir Leslie Stephen

Standard Name: Stephen, Sir Leslie

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
Literary responses Anne Damer
Respect for her work as an artist continued to be voiced through the nineteenth century. Where she was criticised (by Leslie Stephen in the Dictionary of National Biography, for instance) it was not directly...
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 Thomas Hardy
His many literary acquaintances in London included Sir Leslie Stephen , Anne Thackeray Ritchie , and Adelaide Procter .
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin.
274-5, 278
Textual Production Thomas Hardy
This time the title comes from Thomas Gray . Sir Leslie Stephen was responsible for the acceptance of this novel, which is remarkable for its independent-minded, property-owning heroine.
Textual Features Q. D. Leavis
QDL 's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop notes, her work recalls Wordsworth 's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
140
of his time. She...
Travel Vernon Lee
VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
Over the years, RM published several dozen literary articles in a wide range of magazines, newspapers, and commemorative volumes. She wrote on past and contemporary literary figures, including Leslie Stephen , Stella Benson , Rebecca West
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
Textual Features Constance Naden
CN argues here that absolute knowledge is impossible because of the unavoidable element of subjectivity.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
73
Although this sounds as if anything beyond our senses must be essentially unknowable, so that even its existence becomes...
Textual Features Edna O'Brien
There are three characters in this text: Woolf herself, appearing both in her youth and in maturity; The Man (who represents now her father Leslie Stephen and now her husband Leonard Woolf ); and Woolf's...
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.
104-5
Henry James was another acquaintance she made on holiday, a few years later.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
120
Travel Margaret Oliphant
Four years later she was in Grindelwald in Switzerland, with Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Leslie Stephen .
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
104-5
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.
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.
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, p. various pages.
xxv
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Harriet Marian Stephen

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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 .

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.