Julia Prinsep STEPHEN (1846

Events in Julia Prinsep STEPHEN (1846 - 1895)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
Jul 1846		Julia Prinsep STEPHEN was born
04 May 1867	20	Married Herbert DUCKWORTH (aged 34)
1868	22	Birth of son George Herbert DUCKWORTH
1869	23	Birth of daughter Stella DUCKWORTH
1870	24	Birth of son Gerald de l'Etang DUCKWORTH
1870	24	Death of husband Herbert DUCKWORTH (aged 37)		Note 1
1879	33	Married Leslie STEPHEN (aged 47)
30 May 1879	32	Birth of daughter Vanessa BELL	Hyde Park Gate
1880	34	Birth of son Thoby Prinsep STEPHEN
25 Jan 1882	35	Birth of daughter Virginia WOOLF	22 Hyde Park Gate, London, England
1883	37	Birth of son Adrian Leslie STEPHEN
1887	41	Death of father Dr. John JACKSON (aged 83)
1892	46	Death of mother Maria JACKSON (aged 74)
1895	49	Julia Prinsep STEPHEN died		Note 2

Note 1: "stretched to pick a fig, burst an abscess, and died shortly afterword" (Hussey 76)

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

Personal Notes:

EDUCATION:

MAJOR LIFE EVENTS:

CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT:

ADULT TEMPERAMENT:
-"Decisive, conservative, and pragmatic" (Lee 83)
-"her wit could be almost shocking" (Bell 18)
-"She seems to have been reticent and aloof" (Lee 81)
-"Leslie complained bitterly that she sacrificed herself too much" (Lee 93)

ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR:
-"In dealing with her own children she had a hasty temper" (Bell 26)
-"did not venture into what was called 'high society;' in fact they lived very quietly, although Julia had her 'Sunday Afternoons' when a visitor might encounter a part of the intellectual society of London" (Bell 21)
-"she spread herself thinly between a great many people: husband first, eight children, hypochondriac mother, aunts, sister, sister's family, brother-in-law's family, endless further relatives, friends, the sick and the poor" (Lee 81)
−"literary tributes were paid to Julia Stephen ,but she was not a public person" (Lee 83)
−"she was a woman who believed in working for good, in a practical way, in her immediate domestic circle and through benevolent institutions. She seems to have fully endorsed the Victorian models for female behavior...She was opposed to female suffrage and thought women should only be educated for domestic careers" (Lee 85)
-"was perhaps the most beautiful of Mrs Jackson's daughters, the one most intimately connected with the Little Holland House circle. Her effect upon the Pre-Raphaelites was notable..." (Bell 17)

ADULT WORK HABITS:
-"Spread herself thinly between a great many people" (Lee 81)
-"She turned herself into a deathbed attendant, the person of whom it would always be said (as Leslie said to her): 'If I were dying I should long to have you by my side'" (Lee 93)
-"commitment to duty" (Lee 92)- taking care of her mother

SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA:

SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:
-"She lost her faith and her capacity for happiness" (Lee 93) after Herbert's death
-said to Julia Margaret Cameron after Herbert's death "Oh aunt Julia only pray God that I may die soon, that is what I most want" (Lee 93)
-"chronic grief" after Herbert's death; "all life seemed a shipwreck" and "her despair was complete" (Bell 13)

PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES:
-case of influenza less than 2 months before her death (Webb 14)

ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES:
-none known
-James Pattle, her grandfather, was an alcoholic (Lee 87)

HOSPITALIZATION:
-none known

OTHER:
-agnostic: "Leslie's writings on agnosticism were a powerful influence on her in the years of her bereavement" (Lee 93).
-"came from an artistic family" (Webb 9)
-"opposed to women's rights" (Webb 11)
-meant to stop their family after Thoby, but "contraception was a very imperfect art in the nineteenth century" and thus Virginia was born "less
than eighteen months later" (Bell 18)
-"Julia and her family were, socially, a little better than the Stephens" (Bell 20)

Source References:

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

- Reference = 13, 17, 18, 20, 21, 26 (Name, Notes)

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

- Reference = 81, 83, 85, 87, 92, 93 (Name, Notes)

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

- Reference = 9, 11, 14 (Name, Notes)

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