Leslie Stephen

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biographer clergyman editor essayist human literary critic mountaineer philosopher

Leslie Stephen was a prominent 19th-century English literary critic, biographer, and mountaineer, best known as the founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and as the father of writer Virginia Woolf.

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Label	Occurrences
Leslie Stephen canonical	39
Sir Leslie Stephen	1
Victorian man of letters Leslie Stephen	1

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instanceOf	biographer ⓘ clergyman ⓘ editor ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ philosopher ⓘ
associatedWith	Alpine Club ⓘ Bloomsbury Group ⓘ surface form: Bloomsbury Group (through his children)
burialPlace	Highgate Cemetery, London ⓘ surface form: Highgate Cemetery
causeOfDeath	cancer ⓘ
child	Adrian Stephen ⓘ Thoby Stephen ⓘ Vanessa Bell ⓘ Virginia Woolf ⓘ
citizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
countryOfBirth	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ surface form: United Kingdom
dateOfBirth	1832-11-28 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1904-02-22 ⓘ
educatedAt	Eton College ⓘ Trinity Hall, Cambridge ⓘ
fieldOfWork	biography ⓘ ethics ⓘ intellectual history ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
knownFor	father of Virginia Woolf ⓘ founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography ⓘ pioneer of mountaineering in the Alps ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
memberOf	Cambridge Apostles ⓘ
movement	Victorian literature ⓘ
name	Leslie Stephen self-link ⓘ
nationality	English ⓘ
notableAchievement	early president of the Alpine Club ⓘ
notableWork	Dictionary of National Biography ⓘ History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century ⓘ Hours in a Library ⓘ Studies of a Biographer ⓘ The Science of Ethics ⓘ
occupation	biographer ⓘ editor ⓘ essayist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ philosopher ⓘ
parent	James Stephen ⓘ Jane Catherine Venn ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Kensington ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London
placeOfDeath	Kensington ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London
positionHeld	editor of the Cornhill Magazine ⓘ first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography ⓘ
religion	Anglicanism (broadly) ⓘ surface form: Anglicanism agnosticism ⓘ
residence	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
sibling	James Fitzjames Stephen ⓘ
spouse	Harriet Marian Thackeray ⓘ Julia Prinsep Duckworth ⓘ

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