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Sir Leslie Stephen

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Noun1.Sir Leslie Stephen - English writer (1832-1904)


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The man happened to be Sir Leslie Stephen, brother of the celebrated Judge Stephen the man who sentenced Florence Maybrick to hang for allegedly poisoning her husband.
Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, and her brother Adrian both had a mild form of manic-depression bearing the clinical name of cyclothymia, while her other full siblings, Thoby and Vanessa, underwent periodic episodes of depression; one of their first cousins was a manic-depressive, and their half-sister Laura Stephen was either retarded or disturbed in some unidentified way--possibly she was autistic--and spent her life in an asylum.
Sir Leslie Stephen, his daughter Virginia Woolf tells us, would stomp about repeating his ballads by heart.
 
 
 
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