Sir Leslie Stephen

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.

Four years later she was in Grindelwald in Switzerland, with Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Leslie Stephen .

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

According to Leslie Stephen , MV began this first novel as early as March 1872.

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.

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.

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

CN argues here that absolute knowledge is impossible because of the unavoidable element of subjectivity. Although this sounds as if anything beyond our senses must be essentially unknowable, so that even its existence becomes...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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 ).

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...