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| Caroline Emelia STEPHEN (1834 - 1909) |
| religious writer |
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| Six Generation Ancestors Table |
| b. 08 Dec 1834 at Kensington Gore, later 42 Hyde Park Gate, London |
| d. 1909 aged 75 |
| Cause of Death: |
| died "as a result of a long-standing heart ailment" |
| Parents: |
| James STEPHEN (1789 - 1859) |
| Jane Catherine VENN (1793 - 1875) |
| Siblings (3): |
| Herbert Venn STEPHEN (1822 - 1846) |
| James Fitzjames STEPHEN (1829 - 1894) |
| Leslie STEPHEN (1832 - 1904) |
| Events in Caroline Emelia STEPHEN (1834 - 1909)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 08 Dec 1834 | Caroline Emelia STEPHEN was born | Kensington Gore, later 42 Hyde Park Gate, London | |||
| 1859 | 25 | Death of father James STEPHEN (aged 70) | Note 1 | ||
| 1875 | 41 | Death of mother Jane Catherine VENN (aged 82) | |||
| 1909 | 75 | Caroline Emelia STEPHEN died | |||
| Note 1: "deteriorated rapidly" after James Kenneth's death, "dying two years later" (Hussey 266) |
| Personal Notes: |
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EDUCATION:
MAJOR LIFE EVENTS: CHILDHOOD TEMPERAMENT: -close to brother Leslie (Lee 66) -"Caroline may have staged a quiet private revolution against Leslie's domination: 'the action of the spoilt child in him often had to me the effect of unkindness'..." (Lee 67) ADULT TEMPERAMENT: -"intelligent only daughter...made...retreat into invalidism" (Lee 66) -"'most depressing companion,' who had had her heart broken by an unrequited love and her spirits broken by long nursing of her dying mother, and who had found her only consolation in the Quaker faith" (Lee 66) -she "evolved an idea of a spinster's community, "a nunnery of one" (Lee 67) -"an intelligent woman who fell, nevertheless, into the role of the imbecile Victorian female" (Bell 6-7) ADULT SOCIAL BEHAVIOR: ADULT WORK HABITS: -"never stopped talking but wrote in praise of silence" (Lee 67) SIGNS OF MANIA/HYPOMANIA: SIGNS OF DEPRESSION: PHYSICAL AILMENTS/CHRONIC ILLNESSES: ALCOHOL/OTHER DRUG ABUSES: HOSPITALIZATION: OTHER: -called "The Quaker" or "Nun" later in life (Lee 66) -Virginia saw her as having a "wonderful command of language" (Lee 67), eloquent -"fell in love with a student" who went to India and was never heard from again. "her heart was broken and her health was ruined; at the age of twenty-three she settled down to become an invalid and an old maid. She lost her faith and set herself with great diligence to find another" (Bell 7) thus became a Quaker |
| Source References: |
| 1. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Auth: Quentin Bell, Publ: Mariner Books, Date: 1974 |
| - Reference = 6, 7 (Name, Notes) |
| 2. Type: Book, Title: Virginia Woolf, Auth: Hermione Lee, Publ: Vintage Books, Date: 1996 |
| - Reference = 66, 67 (Name, Notes) |
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