Author: John W. Bicknell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248878
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Since F.W. Maitland's Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (1907), there has been no volume of the letters written by this extraordinary and eminent Victorian. Alpinist, literary critic, god-killer, editor of The Cornhill Magazine and The Dictionary of National Biography, biographer, historian of ideas, and father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, Stephen corresponded with a host of men and women, including such notables as his American friends - James Russell Lowell, Justice Holmes and art historian Charles E. Norton; such contemporaries among the intelligentsia as John Morley, Henry Sidgwick, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, F.W. Maitland, and Thomas Hardy; and the members of his family - Minny, his first wife; his sister-in-law, Anny Ritchie; his son Thoby; and his best beloved second wife, Julia. In his letters, always readable, we find his enthusiasms, his ironic humour, his self-doubt and self-pity, his anguish over his retarded child Laura, his candour, his lively portraits of people and places, his delight in the young - Nessa, Ginia and Thoby, and his direct and easy style as he responds to his reader's interests and needs. This second volume follws the demanding years Stephen spent as Editor of The Dictionary of National Biography, his happy life with Julia until her death in 1895 and his continuing devotion to literature, a source of much solace in his last years.
Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen
Author: John W. Bicknell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248878
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Since F.W. Maitland's Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (1907), there has been no volume of the letters written by this extraordinary and eminent Victorian. Alpinist, literary critic, god-killer, editor of The Cornhill Magazine and The Dictionary of National Biography, biographer, historian of ideas, and father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, Stephen corresponded with a host of men and women, including such notables as his American friends - James Russell Lowell, Justice Holmes and art historian Charles E. Norton; such contemporaries among the intelligentsia as John Morley, Henry Sidgwick, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, F.W. Maitland, and Thomas Hardy; and the members of his family - Minny, his first wife; his sister-in-law, Anny Ritchie; his son Thoby; and his best beloved second wife, Julia. In his letters, always readable, we find his enthusiasms, his ironic humour, his self-doubt and self-pity, his anguish over his retarded child Laura, his candour, his lively portraits of people and places, his delight in the young - Nessa, Ginia and Thoby, and his direct and easy style as he responds to his reader's interests and needs. This second volume follws the demanding years Stephen spent as Editor of The Dictionary of National Biography, his happy life with Julia until her death in 1895 and his continuing devotion to literature, a source of much solace in his last years.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248878
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Since F.W. Maitland's Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (1907), there has been no volume of the letters written by this extraordinary and eminent Victorian. Alpinist, literary critic, god-killer, editor of The Cornhill Magazine and The Dictionary of National Biography, biographer, historian of ideas, and father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, Stephen corresponded with a host of men and women, including such notables as his American friends - James Russell Lowell, Justice Holmes and art historian Charles E. Norton; such contemporaries among the intelligentsia as John Morley, Henry Sidgwick, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, F.W. Maitland, and Thomas Hardy; and the members of his family - Minny, his first wife; his sister-in-law, Anny Ritchie; his son Thoby; and his best beloved second wife, Julia. In his letters, always readable, we find his enthusiasms, his ironic humour, his self-doubt and self-pity, his anguish over his retarded child Laura, his candour, his lively portraits of people and places, his delight in the young - Nessa, Ginia and Thoby, and his direct and easy style as he responds to his reader's interests and needs. This second volume follws the demanding years Stephen spent as Editor of The Dictionary of National Biography, his happy life with Julia until her death in 1895 and his continuing devotion to literature, a source of much solace in his last years.
Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen
Author: John W. Bicknell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781349248896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781349248896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen: 1864-1882
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen: 1882-1904
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen: 1864-1882. Vol 2. 1882-1904
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
Author: Vanessa Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559212618
Category : Bloomsbury group
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection contains over 300 letters of painter & decorative designer Vanessa Bell, the central figure in the Bloomsbury group.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559212618
Category : Bloomsbury group
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection contains over 300 letters of painter & decorative designer Vanessa Bell, the central figure in the Bloomsbury group.
Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen: 1864-1882
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen: 1882-1904
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Congenial Spirits
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780151221004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A one-volume condensation of the letters of Virginia Woolf. This brings together the very best of her letters, with a number of important letters never before published, and restores withheld material.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780151221004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A one-volume condensation of the letters of Virginia Woolf. This brings together the very best of her letters, with a number of important letters never before published, and restores withheld material.