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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…
Virginia Woolf’s mother was Julia Prinsep Stephen. Julia was born in Calcutta, India. Dr. John and Maria Pattle Jackson were her parents. They had three daughters and Julia was the youngest. Julia Margaret Cameron, a famous Victorian photographer was her aunt. In 1848, she along with her mother and sister moved back to England to live in Hendon.
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 ...
Stephen, Julia Prinsep (1846–1895) British children's writer and essayist. Name variations: Julia Duckworth; Julia Jackson Duckworth Stephen; Mrs. Leslie Stephen.Born Julia Prinsep Jackson, Feb 7, 1846, in Calcutta, India; died May 5, 1895, in London, England; dau. of John Jackson and Maria Pattle Jackson; niece of Julia Margaret Cameron; m.
Julia, 1864, an early photograph by her Aunt Julia Margaret Cameron. Julia, now 17, became the daughter at home after the marriages of her sisters, Adeline Vaughan and Mary Fisher. She inherited the role previously filled by them as her mother’s close companion and support. Her father John Jackson still had his busy practice in Hanover Square ...
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth) The niece and goddaughter of Julia Margaret Cameron and, like her, a member of the artistic circle which gathered at Little Holland House. She was a renowned beauty and a favourite of the Pre-Raphaelites and sat for Burne-Jones, as well as G. F. Watts and her godmother.
James had left £100 sterling each to his two eldest daughters, Julia Margaret Cameron and Sarah Prinsep, his two executors Thoby Prinsep and Charles Cameron, and his nephew Frederick Becher Rocke, for them to buy a mourning ring or token in remembrance of him. The remainder of his wealth was left entirely to Adeline.
