Sir Leslie Stephen

Standard Name: Stephen, Sir Leslie

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Family and Intimate relationships Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR 's sister Minny (wife of Leslie Stephen ), who was pregnant for the fourth time, died of eclampsia.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Harriet Marian Stephen
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Thackeray Ritchie
A sister, Jane, born in July 1838, died at the age of nine months. ATR 's second sister, Harriet Marian or Minny, who did survive, was three years her junior. ATR tried to fill...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Thackeray Ritchie
She was forty to his twenty-two. He left Cambridge and took the India Office job in order to marry her.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
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Her friends Julia Duckworth and Leslie Stephen , who married the next year, were...
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.
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Mark Hussey writes that he was, after Matthew Arnold
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.
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Julia Stephen had three children from her first marriage...
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.
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Her habit of voracious...
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.
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Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Education Dorothy Bussy
Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre . Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain
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.
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