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Thoby Stephen. Julian Thoby Stephen (9 September 1880 – 20 November 1906), known as the Goth, was the brother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, both prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, and of Adrian Stephen . Thoby Stephen was the eldest son of Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Stephen.
8 de jul. de 2020 · Thoby Stephen, Virginia’s eldest brother, had been infected with typhoid. The letter Virginia wrote the day he died was to Violet Dickinson, who had accompanied the Stephens on their trip. She,...
Julian Thoby Stephen, the eldest son of Leslie Stephen and Julia Princep Duckworth, was born at Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, in September 1880. His mother had three children from a previous marriage: George Duckworth (1868–1934), Stella Duckworth (1869–1897), and Gerald Duckworth (1870–1937). Thoby had a a brother and two sisters: Vanessa Stephen (1879), Virginia Stephen (1882) and Adrian ...
- Two Deaths in The Family
- Leonard Woolf
- Roger Fry
- Lytton Strachey
- John Maynard Keynes
At the time, Bloomsbury was not typically seen as a desirable area of London. However, having tired of the demands placed on them by good society, it was precisely this aspect of Bloomsbury that appealed to the Stephens, and to Vanessa and Virginiain particular. Instead of receiving guests for their father at tea time, the Stephen sisters began hos...
Leonard Woolf was born in London in 1880 to a Jewish family. His father, a successful barrister and Queen’s counsel, died when Leonard was twelve. Having given up a promising imperial career as an assistant government agent in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the hopes that Virginia Stephen would agree to marry him, Leonard Woolf went on to become an advi...
An older member of the Bloomsbury Group, Roger Fry was born on 14 December 1866 to Quaker parents. After studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, Fry decided to dedicate his life to art. Better known for his art criticism than for his art, he was instrumental in introducing continental Post-Impressionist art to Britain. In doing so, he he...
Giles Lytton Strachey was born on 1 March 1880 to a large Anglo-Indian family. Though he was a sickly child, his mother was adamant that he received the best education possible. That education culminated in Strachey studying at Trinity College, Cambridge. After failing to secure a career in either the civil service or academia after his graduation,...
Born on 5 June 1883, John Maynard Keynesincreasingly came to seem something of an anomaly within the Bloomsbury set. While his closest friends were famous writers, artists, and art critics, he himself was an influential economist and joined the Treasury in 1915. As Frances Spalding notes: “his close involvement with high finance and politics often ...
Julian Thoby Stephen (9 September 1880 – 20 November 1906), known as the Goth, was the brother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, both prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, and of Adrian Stephen. He was a Cambridge Apostles.
22 de mar. de 2011 · Death of father Leslie STEPHEN (aged 72) 20 Nov 1906. 26. Thoby Prinsep STEPHEN died. Note 2. Note 1: death was premature, devastated Leslie, had influenza less than 2 mo before death. Note 2: early death, died "quiet and courageous" after being operated on (Lee 226)
in her home, from the Clarendon Press student editions of Greek plays that she translated to the texts that her brother Thoby Stephen inscribed at Clifton College and Cambridge University. These volumes, now in Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s library at Washington State University, shaped the academic landscape that Jacob inhabited. Beginning with the genre of the textbook, the books in Woolf ...
