James STEPHEN (1758

Events in James STEPHEN (1758 - 1832)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
		Married Sarah CLARKE		Note 1
30 Jun 1758		James STEPHEN was born	Poole, Dorset
1775	17	Death of mother Sibella MILNER
1779	21	Death of father James STEPHEN (aged 46)
18 Jan 1787	28	Birth of son Henry John STEPHEN
1789	31	Birth of son James STEPHEN
17 Jan 1794	35	Birth of son George STEPHEN
1796	38	Death of wife Anna STENT (aged 38)		Note 2
1816	58	Death of wife Sarah CLARKE
1832	74	James STEPHEN died

Note 1: had 4 other children in addition to Henry, James, and George

Note 2: died in childbirth of her seventh child (Lee 59)

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:
-had an illegitimate son with "Maria," the woman Nancy's brother (his brother-in-law) was in love with (Lee 58-59)
-"young boy when his father was in prison; his father's fellow prisoners encouraged him in his reading" (Lee 58) (father had been in debtors prison..eventually drank himself to death)
-"'Jem' had a difficult hand-to-mouth childhood but emerged from it to become a public figure of influence and importance" (Lee 58)

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:
-"His 'apprehension of ghosts' made him sleep with his head under the bedclothes" (Lee 60)
-he said "My imagination also was extremely active and wild" (Lee 60)

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-has what Leslie called the 'irritable and nervous temperament' of the Stephens (Lee 60)
-"The death of Stephen's wife in December 1796 led to a deepening of his religious convictions" (ODNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26373?docPos=1).
-"Described as a ‘high-minded fanatic’ by Henry Adams, a ‘third-rate debater’ by Lord Brougham, and ‘the most learned, bitter, and extreme of anti-slavery pamphleteers’ by W. L. Mathieson" (ODNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26373?docPos=1)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:

ADULT WORK HABITS:
-wrote Memoirs for his children between 1819 and 1825: had "three confessions to make: of his sexual aberrations in youth, of his pleasure in his public success, and of his devout conviction of God's special favor" (Lee 58)
-worked in abolition movement (Lee 59-60)
-"became an MP and a Master in Chancery and wrote a famous pamphlet, War in Disguise, which influenced the 1812 War with America" (Lee 59)
-"...he was responsible for nursing his mother in the last stages of tuberculosis. Her death on 21 March 1775 was a profound psychological blow to her son, who religiously commemorated the anniversary of her passing" (ODNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26373?docPos=1)

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:
-"sexual aberrations in youth," according to him (Lee 58)

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:
-feelings of guilt about Nancy and "Maria" (Lee 60)
-"thoughts of suicide when his mother died" (Lee 60)

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:

Source References:

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

- Reference = 58, 59, 60 (Name, Notes)

- Reference = (Name, Notes)

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