James Fitzjames STEPHEN (1829

Events in James Fitzjames STEPHEN (1829 - 1894)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1829		James Fitzjames STEPHEN was born
1856	27	Birth of son Herbert STEPHEN
26 Feb 1856	27	Birth of daughter Katharine STEPHEN	29 Westbourne Terrace in London
1859	30	Birth of son James "Jem" Kenneth Stephen
1859	30	Death of father James STEPHEN (aged 70)		Note 1
1860	31	Birth of son Harry STEPHEN
1862	33	Birth of daughter Helen STEPHEN
1868	39	Birth of daughter Rosamond STEPHEN
1871	42	Birth of daughter Dorothea Jane STEPHEN
1875	46	Death of mother Jane Catherine VENN (aged 82)
1892	63	Death of son James "Jem" Kenneth Stephen (aged 33)		Note 2
1894	65	James Fitzjames STEPHEN died

Note 1: "deteriorated rapidly" after James Kenneth's death, "dying two years later" (Hussey 266)

Note 2: died early in asylum after starving himself for three weeks (Hussey 266)

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:
-had 6 kids

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:
-"he was the domineering brother, at Eton the big brave bully who learnt that 'to be weak is wretched'" (Lee 62)
−"grew to be a big broad-shouldered fellow known to his playmates as 'Giant Grim' and well able to give blow for blow with anyone" (Bell 7)
−"tough, self-reliant, no-nonsense" (Bell 7)
−"a roaring, crushing, rampageous debater, packing a cruel punch in argument, chosen for the brightness of his intellect and his manifest intellectual integrity as a member of that arch-intellectual society, the 'Apostles'" (Bell 7)

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-"stern, uncompromising" Stephen character "at its most unyielding" (Lee 62)
-"powerful, bulky figure sternly buttoned into a frock coat conducting Lady Stephen to church every Sunday morning, there to pay his respects to a being in which he had ceased to believe"(Bell 8)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:

ADULT WORK HABITS:
-"blustering journalist, penalising judge and scourge of liberal opinion" (Lee 62)
-workaholic: Leslie said "he did a quantity which was appalling-and killed himself by it" (Lee 62)
-"constant preoccupation was with the vices that menaced society" (Bell 8)
-"hostility to feminism was notorious: he tangled in print with Millicent Fawcett and argued against John Stuart Mill over women's rights" (Lee 62)
-"disgraceful end to his career (he was asked to retire after a summing-up in which he said that an adulterous woman was likely to commit murder" (Lee 62)
"progressive reformer in the law" (Lee 62)

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:
-"...the effects of a severe blow to the head, sustained in 1886 from a windmill-driven water-pump, were becoming steadily more evident in frequent periods of violent excitement and depression" (ODNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26375?docPos=4).

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:
-"in old age Fitzjames developed senile dementia and died a broken man, overcome by work and the tragic insanity and early death of his brilliant son James Kenneth Stephen" (Lee 62)

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:
-none of his 4 daughters married, one son didn't marry until age 70, and his other son Harry had a son who had a severe breakdown (Lee 63)

Source References:

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

- Reference = 7, 8 (Name, Notes)

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

- Reference = 62 (Name, Notes)

- Reference = (Name, Notes)

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