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Julia Prinsep Stephen’s influence on Woolf is both more nebulous and more all-encompassing than that of Cameron and Ritchie. Woolf frequently felt her presence, ‘there she is; beautiful, emphatic, with her familiar phrase and her laugh; closer than any of the living are’ ( Rem: 40). She draws attention to her through the deictic ‘There ...
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.
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth) by Julia Margaret Cameron albumen print, 1867 11 1/2 in. x 9 7/8 in. (292 mm x 238 mm) Given by Royal Historical Society, 1952 Photographs Collection NPG x18016
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.
Leslie Stephen, Julia’s future second husband, later recorded hearing news of the engagement when he was dining with his fiancée Minny Thackeray and her sister Anny: … Val Prinsep was one of the party. He announced to us the news of Julia Jackson’s engagement to Herbert Duckworth.
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…
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.
