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Julia Stephen’s great-aunt and namesake was marrying into one of the richest, most influential families in India. Edward’s father, Sir Elijah Impey, had been the Lord Chief Justice of Calcutta and a close friend of the Governor General, Warren Hastings. None of Edward’s or Julia’s parents were at their wedding.
Mia Jackson and the Malvern Water Cure. Julia Stephen’s mother, Maria (Mia) Jackson, suffered from disabling and very painful rheumatism for most of her life. The water-cure was then thought to be the best treatment for that, and a number of other illnesses and complaints. Discovering a drawing of Julia Prinsep Stephen by George Frederick ...
Julia Prinsep Stephen was a celebrated Englishwoman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist. She was the wife of the biographer Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of the Bloomsbury Group.
Julia Prinsep Stephen’s influence on Woolf is both more nebulous and more all-encompassing than that of Cameron and Ritchie. Woolf frequently felt her presence, ‘there she is; beautiful, emphatic, with her familiar phrase and her laugh; closer than any of the living are’ ( Rem: 40). She draws attention to her through the deictic ‘There ...
Leslie Stephen, Julia’s future second husband, later recorded hearing news of the engagement when he was dining with his fiancée Minny Thackeray and her sister Anny: … Val Prinsep was one of the party. He announced to us the news of Julia Jackson’s engagement to Herbert Duckworth. It was a very interesting announcement as she was a ...
At Little Holland House the culte of beauty continued from the Pattle sisters into the next generation. Like most of her aunts, it was Julia’s beauty which, of all her characteristics, was most remarked upon, even as a child. From the beginning she was usually portrayed as a vision – as ethereal, idealised and elusive.
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth) by The London Photographic Company albumen print on card, circa 1867 3 5/8 in. x 2 1/4 in. (91 mm x 56 mm) image size Given by Cordelia Curle (née Fisher), 1959 Photographs Collection NPG x18076
