Sir Leslie Stephen

Standard Name: Stephen, Sir Leslie

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Violence Virginia Woolf
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.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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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.
1: 50-1
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
1
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.
2: 172
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.
2: 224
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
216
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
663
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.
74
Julia Stephen had three children from her first marriage...
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...
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.
1: 51
Her habit of voracious...

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