Sir Leslie Stephen

Standard Name: Stephen, Sir Leslie

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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...
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 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.
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Henry James was another acquaintance she made on holiday, a few years later.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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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...
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.
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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...
Literary responses Catharine Trotter
In the original Dictionary of National Biography, Leslie Stephen accused CT not only of inconsistency in switching her allegiance from Locke to Samuel Clarke, but also of being too obtuse to perceive her own...
Literary responses Margaret Veley
Leslie Stephen (in his later preface to posthumous work by MV ) commented that 'For Percival' had true literary distinction: a graceful, clear, and pointed style, a strong sense of humour and a keen perception...
Literary responses Margaret Veley
Leslie Stephen 's preface eloquently characterised MV 's strengths as a writer. As well as praising her true and unusual literary distinction as a novellist,
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv.
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he dwelt at some length on her life and...
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.
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Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
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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.
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Residence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray and the widowed Leslie Stephen , with whom she continued to live, moved to 11 Hyde Park Gate South, London.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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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.
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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.
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of his time. She...

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