James STEPHEN (1789

Events in James STEPHEN (1789 - 1859)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1789		James STEPHEN was born
1796	7	Death of mother Anna STENT (aged 38)		Note 1
1814	25	Married Jane Catherine VENN (aged 21)
1822	33	Birth of son Herbert Venn STEPHEN
1829	40	Birth of son James Fitzjames STEPHEN
1832	43	Birth of son Leslie STEPHEN
1832	43	Death of father James STEPHEN (aged 74)
08 Dec 1834	45	Birth of daughter Caroline Emelia STEPHEN	Kensington Gore, later 42 Hyde Park Gate, London
1846	57	Death of son Herbert Venn STEPHEN (aged 24)
1859	70	James STEPHEN died		Note 2

Note 1: died in childbirth of her seventh child (Lee 59)

Note 2: "deteriorated rapidly" after James Kenneth's death, "dying two years later" (Hussey 266)

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:
-"was educated under an evangelical don at Cambridge" (Lee 60)

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-"austere, shy, enormously learned and hard-working" (Lee 60)
-"thin-skinned man" (Lee 61) (as Leslie said)
-self-conscious- "He could not bear to have a looking-glass in the room lest he should be reminded of his own appearance...He could not bear that his birthday should ever be noticed" (Lee 61)- Leslie Stephen
-"Leslie thought of his father as 'two persons as one.' That double nature--the rigid will and the thin skin--would emerge again in the next generation, particularly in Thoby" (Lee 61)
-"natural inclination to gloom and to self-mortification" (Bell 6)
-"...the household of Sir James Stephen...respected art, by which I mean literary art" (Bell 6-7)
-"He was desperately shy, he was intensely pessimistic" (Bell 6)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:

ADULT WORK HABITS:
-worked for emancipation in the colonies (Counsel to the Colonial Office and Board of Trade and Under-Secretary to the colonies) (Lee 60)
-"unpopular as well as a powerful figure" (Lee 60)
-author of Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography, "one of the most influential colonial administrators of the nineteenth century" (Lee 60)

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:
-racing thoughts, talking very fast: "Leslie remembered him dictating to wife and daughter at such a speed that they could hardly keep up" (Lee 61)

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:
-"he would always anticipate the worst, he was always full of self-disgust" (Lee 61)
-"he would groan out loud to himself (just as Leslie would) and sink into 'depression and hopeless dejection.'" (Lee 61)
-"His states of mind were alarming to him" and he wrote about feeling "oppressed by myself" and like "two persons in one" (Lee 61)

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:
-terrible headaches and the threat of "brain fever" (Lee 61)

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:

HOSPITALIZATION:
-not hospitalized, but breakdowns: "The death of his first son Herbert, his anxiety of Leslie, who was a sickly child, and pressures of work, led to breakdowns, persistent and terrible headaches and the threat of 'brain fever'" (Lee 61)
-"had nervous breakdowns in 1824, 1832, and 1847, the last so severe that his friends and doctor advised his early retirement from the Colonial Office" (Hussey 266)

OTHER:

Source References:

1. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Auth: Quentin Bell, Publ: Mariner Books, Date: 1974

- Reference = 6, 7 (Name, Notes)

2. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf, Auth: Hermione Lee, Publ: Vintage Books, Date: 1996

- Reference = 60, 61 (Name, Notes)

7. Type: Book, Abbr: Virginia Woolf A to Z, Title: Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception, Auth: Mark Hussey, Publ: Facts on File, Inc., Date: 1995

- Reference = 266 (Name, Notes)

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