biography
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Stephen, Sir Leslie
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| lived:
| (1832–1904)
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| biography:
| Scholar and critic, born in London, UK. He studied at King's College, London, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1864. He was ordained, but left the Church in 1870. He helped to found the Pall Mall Gazette, and was editor of the Cornhill Magazine (1871–82). He launched the English Men of Letters series with a biography of Samuel Johnson (1878). The History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (1876) is generally regarded as his most important work. He was also the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (1882–91). Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf were among his children. |
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