4 September 2013

Highgate Cemetery #3: Leslie Stephen

This is a somewhat forlorn grave apparently of someone long forgotten. And yet here lie the parents and brother of perhaps England's greatest twentieth-century writer.
 
'JULIA PRINSEP STEPHEN
7th FEBRUARY 1846
5th MAY 1895
SIR LESLIE STEPHEN
28th NOVEMBER 1832
22nd FEBRUARY 1904
ALSO
JULIAN THOBY STEPHEN
8th SEPTEMBER 1880
20th NOVEMBER 1906'
 
Leslie Stephen is noted for his work on the Dictionary of National Biography. Julia Prinsep was his second wife. And yet the Highgate Cemetery East map doesn't mention that here are Virginia Woolf's mother and father.

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