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Jane Catherine VENN (1793 - 1875)
James STEPHEN Herbert Venn STEPHEN James Fitzjames STEPHEN Leslie STEPHEN Caroline Emelia STEPHEN
Jane Catherine VENN
Six Generation Ancestors Table
b. 1793
m. 1814 James STEPHEN (1789 - 1859)
d. 1875 aged 82
Children (4):
Herbert Venn STEPHEN (1822 - 1846)
James Fitzjames STEPHEN (1829 - 1894)
Leslie STEPHEN (1832 - 1904)
Caroline Emelia STEPHEN (1834 - 1909)
Grandchildren (12):
Herbert STEPHEN (1856 - 1932), Katharine STEPHEN (1856 - 1924), James "Jem" Kenneth Stephen (1859 - 1892), Harry STEPHEN (1860 - 1945), Helen STEPHEN (1862 - 1908), Rosamond STEPHEN (1868 - 1951), Dorothea Jane STEPHEN (1871 - 1965), Laura STEPHEN (1870 - 1945), Vanessa BELL (1879 - 1961), Thoby Prinsep STEPHEN (1880 - 1906), Virginia WOOLF (1882 - 1941), Adrian Leslie STEPHEN (1883 - 1948)
Events in Jane Catherine VENN (1793 - 1875)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1793 Jane Catherine VENN was born
1814 21 Married James STEPHEN (aged 25)
1822 29 Birth of son Herbert Venn STEPHEN
1829 36 Birth of son James Fitzjames STEPHEN
1832 39 Birth of son Leslie STEPHEN
08 Dec 1834 41 Birth of daughter Caroline Emelia STEPHEN Kensington Gore, later 42 Hyde Park Gate, London
1846 53 Death of son Herbert Venn STEPHEN (aged 24)
1859 66 Death of husband James STEPHEN (aged 70) Note 1
1875 82 Jane Catherine VENN died
Note 1: "deteriorated rapidly" after James Kenneth's death, "dying two years later" (Hussey 266)
Personal Notes:
EDUCATION:

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CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-"as sane a woman as ever breathed" (Bell 6)
-"Leslie described his mother as serene, reserved, commonsensical, competent, cultured, and with 'an entire absence of any morbid tendencies'" (Lee 60).

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:
-"provided her husband with a home in which he could forget the agonies of public life" (Bell 6)

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Source References:
1. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Auth: Quentin Bell, Publ: Mariner Books, Date: 1974
- Reference = 6 (Name, Notes)
2. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf, Auth: Hermione Lee, Publ: Vintage Books, Date: 1996
- Reference = 60 (Name, Notes)