Leslie Stephen
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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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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Sir Leslie Stephen | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
biographer
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clergyman ⓘ editor ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alpine Club
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Bloomsbury Group ⓘ
surface form:
Bloomsbury Group (through his children)
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| burialPlace |
Highgate Cemetery, London
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surface form:
Highgate Cemetery
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| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Adrian Stephen
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Thoby Stephen ⓘ Vanessa Bell ⓘ Virginia Woolf ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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surface form:
United Kingdom
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| dateOfBirth | 1832-11-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1904-02-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Eton College
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Trinity Hall, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biography
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ethics ⓘ intellectual history ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
father of Virginia Woolf
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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
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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century ⓘ Hours in a Library ⓘ Studies of a Biographer ⓘ The Science of Ethics ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
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editor ⓘ essayist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| parent |
James Stephen
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Jane Catherine Venn ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kensington
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| placeOfDeath |
Kensington
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| positionHeld |
editor of the Cornhill Magazine
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first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism (broadly)
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surface form:
Anglicanism
agnosticism ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| sibling | James Fitzjames Stephen ⓘ |
| spouse |
Harriet Marian Thackeray
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Julia Prinsep Duckworth ⓘ |
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Sir Leslie Stephen