CHAPTER I.
CHILDHOOD AND EARLY LIFE.
Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709.
His father, Michael Johnson, was a bookseller, highly
respected by the cathedral clergy, and for a time
suffici...
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The English historian, critic, and editor Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was one of the great popularizers of Victorian thought and literature.Leslie Stephen was born in London on Nov. 28, 1832, the s...
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Alpine climber and essayist, editor of the Cornhill Magazine and the Dictionary of National Biography, literary critic and historian, biographer, militant agnostic, historian of ideas, eminent pedestr...
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As Virginia Woolf says in her 1932 centenary Times article, when she heard her father, Leslie Stephen, dropping books to the floor of his study in the 1890s, he had already lived a full life. Stephen ...
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Leslie Stephen was born five months after British Parliament passed the First Reform Bill extending the male franchise-an auspicious birth year for one of the eminent reform writers of the Victorian p...
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Samuel Johnson
Leslie Stephen, Sir
Sir Leslie Stephen