Sir Leslie Stephen

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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