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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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 NERFINISHED
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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The Cornhill Magazine contributor Leslie Stephen
DNB editor Leslie Stephen
this entity surface form: Sir Leslie Stephen
The Cornhill Magazine editor Leslie Stephen
Thoby Stephen father Leslie Stephen
Virginia Woolf father Leslie Stephen
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Vanessa Bell parent Leslie Stephen