Author: ANNAN, NOEL GILROY
Title: Leslie Stephen - His Thought And Character In Relations To His Time
Description: Macgibbon & Kee, 1951, 1st edition. Cloth G+. x+342pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, cloth a little rubbed & worn, otherwise a nice copy. A biography of the author has been pasted to the verso of the half title and a photograph of Annan has been pasted to the title Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A study of the iontellectual impact of Sir Leslie Stephen [ 1832 - 1904 ] agnostic & historian, who was, in many aspects the qunitesential Victorian Man of Letters. He was a major contibutor to the Dictionary of National Biography & father of two of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group - Victoria Woolf and Vanessa Bell. He was also a leading alpinist in the 'Golden Age' of British mountaineering in the Alps.

Keywords: biography, literature, bloomsbury, literary criticism