The English historian, critic, and editor Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was one of the great popularizers of Victorian thought and literature. Leslie Stephen was born in London on Nov. 28, 1832, the son of Sir James Stephen, a leading Evangelical and...

Alpine climber and essayist, editor of the Cornhill Magazine and the Dictionary of National Biography, literary critic and historian, biographer, militant agnostic, historian of ideas, eminent pedestrian, Leslie Stephen has been called the next most...

Leslie Stephen was born five months after British Parliament passed the First Reform Bill extending the male franchise-an auspicious birth year for one of the eminent reform writers of the Victorian period. During his lifetime Stephen was a noted man...

Stephen, Leslie(1832–1904) Leslie Stephen, an English man of letters, was the son of James and Jane Venn Stephen, both of whom came from families in the innermost group of the reforming Evangelicals who formed the so-called Clapham Sect. He...

Sir Leslie Stephen (November 28, 1832 – February 22, 1904) was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa...

Stephens, Leslie A. Sunday, March 21, 2004 Stephens, Leslie A. Passed away Tues., March 16, 2004, age 74. Lovingly survived by his partner of 47 years, Nolan Neds. Cherished brother of Mary Ann Erickson. Preceded in death by his parents, 2 sisters and 4...

Who was Bishop Colenso? And what were the Thirty-nine Articles? What was Essays and Reviews? Who was Governor Eyre and what happened in Jamaica that inspired committees in London to protest his harsh verdicts? Any Victorian specialist can enlighten you about these matters,...