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Julia Stephen born 1846, Calcutta. Town and port of Calcutta (1848) by Sir Charles D’Oyly. John and Mia Jackson’s daughter, Julia, was born in 1846 in the vibrant cosmopolitan port of Calcutta. She would grow up to become Mrs Julia Stephen and Virginia Woolf’s mother. Like her older sisters, Adeline and Mary, she was brought up in France ...
Foreword My search to find out about the elusive Julia Prinsep Stephen (pictured), mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Chapter 1: Indian Roots (c.1772–1837) The Jackson family background – Julia's great grandfather, Captain George Jackson (pictured) and his voyage on the Princess Royal round the South China…
Searching for the elusive Julia Prinsep Stephen. I first discovered Julia Stephen in the pages of a novel ‑ To the Lighthouse by her daughter , Virginia Woolf. I was sitting on a balcony at Talland House in St Ives, Cornwall. This had been the Stephen family’s happy holiday home for 12 years, from 1882. In the novel it was fictionalised as ...
Julia Prinsep Stephen formerly Jackson aka Duckworth. Born 7 Feb 1846 in Bengal, India. Ancestors. Daughter of John Jackson FRCS and Maria Theodosa (Pattle) Jackson. Sister of Adeline Jackson, Corrie John Jackson, Julia Jackson, Mary Louisa Jackson and Mary Louisa (Jackson) Fisher. Wife of Herbert Duckworth — married 1 May 1867 (to 1870) in ...
Leslie Stephen was born in Kensington, London on 28 November 1832. A sickly child, the family moved to Brighton in 1840 partly for his health, and later to Windsor. Stephen attended Eton College as a day boy but gained more intellectually from his freedom to read at home and the atmosphere of learning in the household.
Julia Stephen’s great-aunt and namesake was marrying into one of the richest, most influential families in India. Edward’s father, Sir Elijah Impey, had been the Lord Chief Justice of Calcutta and a close friend of the Governor General, Warren Hastings. None of Edward’s or Julia’s parents were at their wedding.
Discovering a drawing of Julia Prinsep Stephen by George Frederick Watts This is one of my favourite portraits of Julia Stephen so I wanted it for my Home Page, though it is rather dark. It seems to epitomise her elusive nature and her surface calm. Thackeray stories of separation William Makepeace Thackeray, the famous novelist…
