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Sir Leslie Stephen (Londra, 28 novembre 1832 – Londra, 22 febbraio 1904) è stato un critico letterario, filosofo e alpinista britannico, padre di Vanessa Bell e Virginia Woolf, fratello del giurista e politologo James Fitzjames Stephen.
Sir Leslie Stephen KCB FBA (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, mountaineer, and an early humanist activist. He was also the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
9 apr 2024 · Sir Leslie Stephen was an English critic, man of letters, and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. A member of a distinguished intellectual family, Stephen was educated at Eton, at King’s College, London, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was elected to a fellowship in.
8 gen 2024 · Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), personaggio poliedrico come tanti intellettuali dell’Ottocento, ha lasciato un’impronta fondamentale anche nel mondo dell’alpinismo.
28 nov 2023 · Ricorre oggi l’anniversario dalla nascita di Leslie Stephen, padre di Virgina Woolf, ma soprattutto alpinista di spicco, tra i promotori dell’Alpine Club e poi curatore dell’Alpine Journal.
Father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, Leslie Stephen was the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and involved in the Ethical movement from its beginnings in the UK.
Sir Leslie holds a unique place in our literary and cultural history as a distinguished man of letters, and especially as the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and the author of as many as 378 of its original biographies (see Lee).
