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Sir Leslie Stephen's Mausoleum Book
Sir Leslie Stephen's Mausoleum Book
Hours in a Library (Second Series)
This three-volume set brings together a diverse selection of articles by the literary critic Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904). The Second Series, first published in 1876, includes commentaries on the works of Sir Thomas Browne, Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Disraeli and Horace Walpole, and the poetry of George Crabbe.
Samuel Johnson
First published in 1878, this biography explores the life of Samuel Johnson (1709-84), the English poet and lexicographer.
Leslie Stephen
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The Times on the American War
Sir Leslie Stephen KCB (28 November 1832 - 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.Stephen was born at Kensington Gore in London, and son of Sir James Stephen and Lady Jane Catherine (nee Venn) Stephen. His father was Colonial Undersecretary of State and a noted abolitionist. He was the fourth of five children, his siblings including James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) and Caroline Emilia Stephen (1834-1909). His family had belonged to the Clapham Sect, the early 19th century group of mainly evangelical Christian social reformers. At his father's house he saw a good deal of the Macaulays, James Spe...
