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Sir Leslie Stephen KCB FBA (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, mountaineer, and an early humanist activist. He was also the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell .
Apr 9, 2024 · Sir Leslie Stephen (born Nov. 28, 1832, London—died Feb. 22, 1904, London) was an English critic, man of letters, and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. A member of a distinguished intellectual family, Stephen was educated at Eton, at King’s College, London, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was elected to a ...
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May 23, 2018 · Leslie Stephen was an English historian, critic, and editor who wrote on various topics and edited the Dictionary of National Biography. He was an agnostic who rejected theism and original sin, and he influenced his daughter Virginia Woolf.
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A portrait of Sir Leslie Stephen in the United States. Leslie Stephen was born on the 28th of November 1832 in Kensington Gore, London. His parents were Sir James Stephen and mother was Lady Jane Catherine. His father was the British Under Secretary of state. He was instrumental in the abolishing of the slavery act.
Nov 26, 2012 · Leslie Stephen was a mountaineer, critic, and author who made early and important contributions to the literature of the golden age of alpinism. He was the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, and a pioneer of the sport of climbing in the Alps. Learn about his life, career, and legacy from this blog post by Alex Siskin.
Leslie Stephen was a prominent agnostic, editor, and humanist who influenced the early organised humanist movement in the UK. He was the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and involved in the Ethical movement from its beginnings. He was also the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
Oct 23, 2020 · 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.
