Selected letters of Leslie Stephen

Author(s)

• Stephen, Leslie, Sir
• Bicknell, John W.
• Reger, Mark A.

Bibliographic Information

Selected letters of Leslie Stephen

edited by John W. Bicknell

Macmillan, 1996

• : set
• v. 1. 1864-1882
• v. 2. 1882-1904

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 552-553) and index

Vol. 1 assisted by Mark A. Reger

Description and Table of Contents

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 year

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations - Prefactory notes - Editorial Practice - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Simplified Chronology - Part 1: The Damned Dictionmary (1882-91) - Part 2: The Trecherous Interlude (1891-95) Part 3: The Last Years (1896-1904) - Appendix 1: Proposed Method for The Dictionary of National Biography by George Smith - Appendix 2: Stephen announces the New Biographical Dictionary (from The Atheneaum, 23 Dec. 1883) - Appendix 3: Select Bibliography - Index

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Details

• NCID: BA28654889
• ISBN:
  • 0333492196
  • 0333443306
  • 0333492188
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Houndmills
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v. (xix, 570 p., [8] p. of plates)
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR5473.S6
  • DC20 : 828/.809
  • DC20 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904 -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Editors -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Critics -- Great Britain -- Correspondence