Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Margaret Veley | 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... |
Literary responses | Margaret Veley | 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, Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. x |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes
,... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | |
Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Minny
, sister of Anne Thackeray
(later ATR
) married Leslie Stephen
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 159 |
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. 164 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. xxv 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... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | 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)... |
Residence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Anne Thackeray and the widowed Leslie Stephen
, with whom she continued to live, moved to 11 Hyde Park Gate South, London. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 178 |
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. 171 |
Travel | Margaret Oliphant | Four years later she was in Grindelwald in Switzerland, with Anne Thackeray Ritchie
and Leslie Stephen
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 104-5 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | 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. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 104-5 Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 120 |
Textual Features | Edna O'Brien | 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... |
Textual Features | Constance Naden | CN
argues here that absolute knowledge is impossible because of the unavoidable element of subjectivity. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 73 |
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