George Herbert DUCKWORTH (1868

Events in George Herbert DUCKWORTH (1868 - 1934)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1868		George Herbert DUCKWORTH was born
1870	2	Death of father Herbert DUCKWORTH (aged 37)		Note 1
1895	27	Death of mother Julia Prinsep STEPHEN (aged 49)		Note 2
1904	36	Death of step father Leslie STEPHEN (aged 72)
Sep 1904	36	Married Margaret HERBERT (aged 34)
1934	66	George Herbert DUCKWORTH died	Freshwater

Note 1: "stretched to pick a fig, burst an abscess, and died shortly afterword" (Hussey 76)

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

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:
-Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (Hussey 75)

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:
-awkward "enforced intimacy" between Duckworth and Stephen children (Lee 118)
-lost father at age 2; kept saying "Where's Georgie's Papa?" (Lee 118)
-dependent and devoted to his mother (Lee 118)
-"sentimental, unintelligent, emotional boy" (Lee 118)
-Virginia described him as "possessed of a very moderate share of brains...Brains were of very little practical use in the world he reflected--They only led to overwork and nervous breakdowns" (Lee 118)
-constantly made fun of/caricatured/satirized by the family, especially Vanessa and Virginia (Lee 148)

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-"conventional, 'sentimental and pompous,' and utterly unintellectual...he was quite alien to the Stephen children" (Lee 119)
−"kind-hearted, benign, and a pillar of the establishment" in the Stephen children's childhoods (Lee 119)
−Virginia and Vanessa later characterized him as a "piggish, lustful idiot" (Lee 148)
−allegedly sexually assaulted Virginia repeatedly (Lee 151-152)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:
-he was rich while the Stephen girls were poor-as their unofficial guardian took them to social events (Lee 119)
-controlled Virginia and Vanessa for a period of time--socially, emotionally; seemed to be oppressive--it was a "grotesque and intrusive regime" (Lee 148)

ADULT WORK HABITS:
-"failed his diplomatic exams but made a career for himself working for ten years with Charles Booth, the social reformer and author of the massive investigation into urban poverty..." (Lee 118)

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSE:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:

Source References:

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

- Reference = 118, 119, 148, 151, 152 (Name, Notes)

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