Gerald de l'Etang DUCKWORTH (1870

Events in Gerald de l'Etang DUCKWORTH (1870 - 1937)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1870		Gerald de l'Etang DUCKWORTH was born
1870		Death of father Herbert DUCKWORTH (aged 37)		Note 1
1895	25	Death of mother Julia Prinsep STEPHEN (aged 49)		Note 2
1904	34	Death of step father Leslie STEPHEN (aged 72)
1921	51	Married Cecil Scott-Chad
1937	67	Gerald de l'Etang DUCKWORTH died

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 Clare College, Cambridge

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:
-father died before he was born

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:
-"'delicate' and petted child, and would write to his mother in baby-language" (Lee 122)
-"mocking [the Stephen children] with his sneering and his 'teasing and treacherous laughter' making the family laugh at dinner with 'indecent' lavatorial stories, and going off on unsuccessful 'thinning' cures from which he returned 'as fat as ever'" (Lee 122)

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:

ADULT WORK HABITS:
-at Clare College, Cambridge, "not given to hard work" (Lee 122)

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:

ALCOHOL/DRUG ABUSE:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:
-"first culprit in the distressing and contentious matter of Virginia Stephen's abuse as a child" (Lee 122)
-"happy to let the Stephens go their own way in 1904, and he was willing to publish her first two novels" (Lee 122)

Source References:

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

- Reference = 122 (Name, Notes)

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