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Leslie
Stephen, late 1860s
by Julia Margaret
Cameron (1815-1879)
Virginia
Woolf’s father, Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), was an
editor, biographer, philosopher, intellectual historian, alpinist,
and literary critic. He was the first editor of the Dictionary
of National Biography, from 1882 to 1891, and he contributed
important articles until 1901. Stephen’s friends included
Tennyson, Browning, Meredith, Arnold, Carlyle, Froude, G. H.
Lewes, George Eliot, Trollope, Huxley, and Herbert Spencer.
Julia Margaret Pattle became Mrs. Charles Hay
Cameron in 1838 and began her career as a photographer in 1864
when she was forty nine. This is one of her early pictures. In
1878, when Leslie Stephen married Mrs. Cameron’s niece,
Julia Jackson Duckworth, they were both widowers. Cameron was
dazzled by Leslie Stephen’s “vast intellect,”
but also found him “wrapt in gloom, appealing for pity.”
He often recited poetry to Cameron at Dimbola, her home on the
Isle of Wight, where she took many of her portraits of Victorian
luminaries.
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Reproduction
of plate 25 from Leslie Stephen’s Photograph Album
Original: platinum print (23.2 x 18.5 cm.), cropped, possibly printed
by Henry H. H. Cameron.
Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College
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