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Book SynopsisLeslie Stephen (18321904), 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.
Table of Contents1. 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.
