Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen

Klappentext The biography, published in 1906, of the leading Victorian literary figure and founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. Zusammenfassung Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), the founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, was one of the leading literary figures of the nineteenth century. This extensive biography, published in 1906, draws heavily from Stephen's letters to give a detailed account of the life of a most influential Victorian. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Parentage; 3. Boyhood (1832-50); 4. The undergraduate (1850-4); 5. Sketches of a don at Cambridge (1854-64); 6. The playground of Europe (1855-94); 7. The Times and the war (1863-5); 8. Free-thinking and plain-speaking (1862-5); 9. Journalism (1865-71); 10. The first marriage (1865-71); 11. Hours in a library (1867-73); 12. More hours in a library (1873-5); 13. Cornhill and Schreckhorn (1871-5); 14. Wordsworth's ethics (1875-8); 15. The second marriage (1878); 16. An ethical treatise (1878-82); 17. Tramps and contributors (1879-91); 18. The struggle with the Dictionary (1882-91); 19. An agnostics apology (1891-5); 20. Studies of a biographer (1895-1902); 21. The sunset (1902-4); Appendix I. Leslie Stephen's works; II. List of the Sunday Tramps; Index.

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• Authors: Frederic William Maitland, Frederic William Stephen Maitland, Leslie Stephen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9781108048170
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04817-0
• No. of pages: 534
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Biography: writers