Sir Leslie Stephen

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 .

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

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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 ).

VW refused to deliver the Clark lecture series at Cambridge University , thereby also declining to succeed her father, scholar Leslie Stephen , in this honour.

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

Anne Thackeray and the widowed Leslie Stephen , with whom she continued to live, moved to 11 Hyde Park Gate South, London.

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 of his time. She...