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Health | Virginia Woolf | Shortly after the death of her father
in May 1904, Virginia Stephen experienced a second and more serious nervous breakdown. She was nursed for nearly three months at the home of her friend Violet Dickinson |
Instructor | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf was educated at home. As a very young girl, she was tutored by her mother
in Latin, French, and history. When she was between thirteen and fifteen, her father
gave her lessons for... |
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. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 1: 51 |
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. 104, 35 |
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. 377 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 172 |
Violence | Virginia Woolf | As Virginia Stephen
's father
was dying, Virginia's half-brother George Duckworth
fondled her several times in a manner that amounted to sexual assault. Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 3 |
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. 1: 50-1 Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 1 |
politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
refused to deliver the Clark lecture series at Cambridge University
, thereby also declining to succeed her father, scholar Leslie Stephen
, in this honour. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 172 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
refused E. M. Forster
's request for permission to nominate her to the Committee of the London Library
, because of the library's policy against women members (a policy instituted by her father, Leslie Stephen
). Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 224 Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 216 Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 663 |
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, 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. 74 |
Textual Production | Margaret Veley | The year following her death, MV
's only poetry collection was published (selected by Leslie Stephen
, and with his preface), as A Marriage of Shadows. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Residence | Margaret Veley | In London, MV
, in the words of Leslie Stephen
, became known to a much larger circle capable of sympathising with her literary tastes than could be found in the country town Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. xii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Veley | She followed these up with more poems and stories for various periodicals, particularly the Cornhill Magazine, where she received attention and encouragement from Leslie Stephen
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. x-xii |
Textual Production | Margaret Veley | According to Leslie Stephen
, MV
began this first novel as early as March 1872. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. ix |