Leslie Stephen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sir Leslie Stephen November 28 February 22 ) was an English author and critic, the father of two famous daughters, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell Stephen was born at Kensington Gore in London , the brother of James Fitzjames Stephen and grandson of James Stephen . His family belonged to the Clapham Sect , a Christian group. At his father's house he saw a good deal of the Macaulays, James Spedding , Sir Henry Taylor and Nassau Senior . After studying at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge , where he graduated B.A. (20th wrangler ) in and M.A. in , Stephen remained for several years a fellow and tutor of his college . He recounted some of his experiences in a chapter in his Life of Fawcett as well as in some less formal Sketches from Cambridge: By a Don (1865). These sketches were reprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette , to the proprietor of which, George Smith, he had been introduced by his brother. It was at Smith's house at Hampstead that Stephen met his first wife, Harriet Marion (d. 1875), daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray ; after her death he married Julia Prinsep, widow of | |
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