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At Little Holland House the culte of beauty continued from the Pattle sisters into the next generation. Like most of her aunts, it was Julia’s beauty which, of all her characteristics, was most remarked upon, even as a child. From the beginning she was usually portrayed as a vision – as ethereal, idealised and elusive.
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…
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 Prinsep Stephen 109 Woolf did however have evidence of a very different construct of her mother. Leslie Stephen notes that ‘the beautiful series of portraits taken by Mrs. Cameron’ give her children an impression of ‘what she really was. To us, who remember her distinctly, they recall her like nothing else’ (MB: 32).
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.
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.
