Julia Stephen outside Talland House, c.1894

“Julia loved flowers and delighted in such gardening as was compatible with the shortness of our residences,” according to Leslie Stephen in his memoir. When they were courting, Leslie wrote to Julia: “You see I have not got any Saints and you must not be angry if I put you in the place where my Saints ought to be.”

Reproduction of plate 38b from Leslie Stephen’s Photograph Album
Original: silver print (9.7 x 8.6 cm.)
Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College

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