Thoby Prinsep STEPHEN (1880

Events in Thoby Prinsep STEPHEN (1880 - 1906)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1880		Thoby Prinsep STEPHEN was born
1895	15	Death of mother Julia Prinsep STEPHEN (aged 49)		Note 1
1904	24	Death of father Leslie STEPHEN (aged 72)
20 Nov 1906	26	Thoby Prinsep STEPHEN died		Note 2

Note 1: death was premature, devastated Leslie, had influenza less than 2 mo before death

Note 2: early death, died "quiet and courageous" after being operated on (Lee 226)

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:
-Clifton (did not get into Eton) (Lee 114)
-Trinity College, Cambridge (Hussey 271)

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:
−at age 11 "stabbed in the leg" (Lee 114)

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:
−"dominated and led" and was "difficult to manage...resented his mother's authority" (Lee 114)
−"His rages 'were thorough and formidable' and he had a Napoleonic air. But [his mother] also remembered, from the first, "a vein of sensibility" (Lee 114)
−"sturdy, conventional type" (Lee 114)
−"active, outgoing, public-school side" but also "thoughtful and introverted" (Lee 115)
−Virginia saw him as a 'melancholy' young man (Lee 115)
−"talent for drawing birds and animals and an enthusiasm for bird-watching" (Lee 115)
−"amicably combative intellectual relationship" with Virginia (Lee 115)
−"stalwart, determined, masterful little boy"(Bell 22)
−"yet another Stephen, not a delicate nervous Stephen like his father but a jolly rumbustious extrovert like his uncle Fitzjames" (Bell 22)

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
−"aloof" (Lee 115)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:
−knew little about what was going in Virginia's life (Lee 115)

ADULT WORK HABITS:
-"rowed and excelled 'as an essayist' at Cambridge" (MRBR https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/exhibitions/stephen/36i.htm)

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:
-possible suicide attempts (Lee 114)
-"When Thoby was eleven he was stabbed in the leg--or, as Leslie rather oddly phrased it, 'he allowed a playful schoolfellow to stick a knife into his femoral artery,' suggesting that it was not an accident" (Lee 114).
-"He messed up his entrance exam to Eton, and went to Clifton College instead, where the housemaster had to be warned about the sleepwalking: 'he says that he has a dormitory where any attempt at windows is impossible.' This sounds very much like a suicide attempt" (Lee 114)

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:
-influenza- "after an attack of influenza, he became delirious, and wrote the teacher to Julia in March of 1894, 'before the nurse could get to him he was half through the window which he had smashed to shivers...It is evidently never safe to leave him for a moment when he is ill-one can never tell when these attacks may come on'...[and] 'his screams frighten the little boys'" (Lee 114)
-typhoid fever, of which he died (Lee 226)

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:

Source References:

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

- Reference = 22 (Name, Notes)

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

- Reference = 114, 115, 226 (Name, Notes)

6. Type: Web Page, Abbr: MRBR, Title: Mortimer Rare Book Room Website, Auth: Smith College, Locn: https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/exhibitions/stephen/36i.htm

- Reference = (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 = 271 (Name, Notes)

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