Sir Leslie Stephen

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, he dwelt at some length on her life and...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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

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 ,...

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...

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

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.Henry James was another acquaintance she made on holiday, a few years later.

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)...

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...

His many literary acquaintances in London included Sir Leslie Stephen , Anne Thackeray Ritchie , and Adelaide Procter .

Minny , sister of Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) married Leslie Stephen .

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.