Adrian Leslie STEPHEN (1883

Events in Adrian Leslie STEPHEN (1883 - 1948)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1883		Adrian Leslie STEPHEN was born
1895	12	Death of mother Julia Prinsep STEPHEN (aged 49)		Note 1
1904	21	Death of father Leslie STEPHEN (aged 72)
Oct 1914	31	Married Karin COSTELLOE (aged 25)
1948	65	Adrian Leslie STEPHEN died

Note 1: death was premature, devastated Leslie, had influenza less than 2 mo before death

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:
-Trinity College, Cambridge

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:
−"death of his adoring mother when he was twelve, of his father when he was twenty-one and of his older brother when he was twenty-three were shocking catastrophes for him, and painfully affected his later relationships" (Lee 113)

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:
-bossed by the other children (Lee 112)
-lack of success at school (Lee 112); Leslie blamed it on fact that he had been very short and then shot up to over 6ft2in
-"unconfident schoolboy...so 'nervous' that Dr. Seton had to be consulted" (Lee 113)
−"often 'frightened or distracted'" when Leslie gave him extra lessons (Lee 113)
−"delicate, doleful and tiny" (Bell 23)

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-Virginia "exasperated by Adrian's depressive and difficult withdrawal into himself" (Lee 113)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:
-was never emotionally close to virginia (Webb 27)
-his oldest daughter "described her parents, in relation to Virginia, as "always outsiders" (Lee 113)

ADULT WORK HABITS:

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:
-"Adrian re-entered his childhood through analysis when he was in his forties. Virginia reported derisively on the results to Vanessa: 'I gather that his tragedy-as the dr calls it-is all our doing. He was suppressed as a child" (Lee 113)

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:

HOSPITALIZATION:

OTHER:

Source References:

1. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Auth: Quentin Bell, Publ: Mariner Books, Date: 1974

- Reference = 23 (Name, Notes)

2. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf, Auth: Hermione Lee, Publ: Vintage Books, Date: 1996

- Reference = 112, 113 (Name, Notes)

3. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf, Auth: Ruth Webb, Publ: Oxford University Press, Date: 2000

- Reference = 27 (Name, Notes)

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