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Leslie Stephen was not the sort of person to be likely to write about himself, and possibly the fact that he had written so many biographies of others further indisposed him to undertake such a task.
Sir Leslie holds a unique place in our literary and cultural history as a distinguished man of letters, and especially as the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and the author of as many as 378 of its original biographies (see Lee). He is well known too because he features in the work and biographies of his even more famous ...
26 de nov. de 2012 · Leslie Stephen arrived in Cambridge University in 1851 with a fair amount of emotional and intellectual baggage. His father, James Stephen, was the colonial undersecretary, a pretty big job at the height of the British Empire. His older brothers, Herbert and James Fitzjames, had preceded him at Cambridge.
Leslie fluence on Virginia Woolf and refocus our image Stephen, that staunch Victorian patriarch who of Stephen as the Victorian paternal autocrat seemed to his male peers "the most lovable who of tried to bully his daughters out of meaning- men,"1 persecuted and tyrannized the women ful professional work. Leslie Stephen made it who propped him ...
Leslie Stephen has been described by his grandson as ‘in a sense the father of Bloomsbury’ (Q. Bell, Bloomsbury, pl. facing p. 32).He was not only the actual father of the author and the painter who formed Bloomsbury’s nucleus; he was also an eminent Victorian man of letters whose moral philosophy, intellectual histories, literary criticism and biographies reveal, when compared with ...
Note 12 Leslie Stephen, “Carlyle's Ethics,” Hours in a Library (London: Smith and Elder, 1892), iii, 293–94.As Leonard Woolf has noted, Carlyle shifted the study of history to “how men lived and had their being”—that is, to knowledge of the ordinary lives of ordinary people—and Stephen approved of this Carlyle trait too.
Hours in a Library. This three-volume set brings together a diverse selection of essays by Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), author, philosopher and literary critic. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he was the founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. He wrote critiques of many authors ...
