Author:Leslie Stephen

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Leslie Stephen
(1832–1904)

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English biographer and critic, the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (1885 to 1891), and father of Virginia Woolf

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "L. S."

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "L. S."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "L. S."

WorksEdit

An Apology for Plainspeaking, in Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists

BooksEdit

Alexander Pope (1880)(transcription project)
The "Times" on the American War: a historical study (1865) external scan
Sketches from Cambridge (1865) external scan
Essays on freethinking and plainspeaking (1873) external scan
Hours in a Library (1874) 1st, 2nd series, 3rd series
History of English thought in the eighteenth century (1876) external scan
Samuel Johnson (1878) external scan
Swift (1882) external scan
The science of ethics (1882) external scan
Life of Henry Fawcett (1885) external scan
An Agnostic's Apology (1893) external scan
Sir Victor Brooke, Sportsman & Naturalist (1894) external scan
The life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart, K.C.S.I., a judge of the High Court of Justice (1895) external scan
Studies of a Biographer (4 vols., 1898–1902)
Letters of John Richard Green (1901) external scan

Articles in Popular Science MonthlyEdit

TranslationsEdit

The Alps or Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains (1861), translated from Die Alpen in Natur und Lebensbildern by Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch

Works on StephenEdit

"Stephen, Leslie," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
"Stephen, Sir Leslie," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

ReferencesEdit

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.