Gillian Fenwick
Ashgate
Hardback
464
1993
In the forty years after he left Cambridge in 1864 Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) published thirty volumes of his own writings and contributed to another twenty books. He wrote literally hundreds of articles for British and American magazines and worked as editor of The Cornhill Magazine and of Alpine Journal as well as the Dictionary of National Biography. By any standards his literary career was successful epitomising the life of the Victorian man of letters. But he was never completely satisfied with his endeavours. He remained self-effacing adopting the pose of an amateur in a field in which in fact he was a superb professional asking 'Will not the twentieth century laugh at the nineteenth?' Contrary to his expectations Leslie Stephen has not been relegated to the learned footnotes as contemporary Victorian scholarship and Bloomsbury studies prove.
Ashgate
Hardback
464
1993
In the forty years after he left Cambridge in 1864 Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) published thirty volumes of his own writings and contributed to another twenty books. He wrote literally hundreds of articles for British and American magazines and worked as editor of The Cornhill Magazine and of Alpine Journal as well as the Dictionary of National Biography. By any standards his literary career was successful epitomising the life of the Victorian man of letters. But he was never completely satisfied with his endeavours. He remained self-effacing adopting the pose of an amateur in a field in which in fact he was a superb professional asking 'Will not the twentieth century laugh at the nineteenth?' Contrary to his expectations Leslie Stephen has not been relegated to the learned footnotes as contemporary Victorian scholarship and Bloomsbury studies prove.