Sir Leslie Stephen

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)...

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 .

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...

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...

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.

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

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...