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Sir Leslie Stephen ( November 28 , 1832 – February 22 , 1904 ) was an English author and critic, the father of two famous daughters, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell . Stephen was born at , with whom he had a daughter, Laura Makepeace Stephen (1870 - 1945); after her death he married Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846 - 1895), widow of Herbert Duckworth. While at Cambridge, Stephen became an Anglican clergyman. In 1865 , having renounced his religious beliefs, and after a visit to the United States two years earlier, where he had formed lasting friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton , he settled in London and became a Journalist , eventually editing the '' Cornhill Magazine '' in 1871 where R.L. Stevenson , Thomas Hardy , W.E. Norris , Henry James and James Payn figured among his contributors. In his spare time, he participated in Athletics and Mountaineer ing. He also contributed to the ''Saturday Review'', ''Fraser'', ''Macmillan'', the ''Fortnightly'' and other periodicals. He was already known as a climber, as a contributor to ''Peaks, Passes and Glaciers'' (1862), and as one of the earliest presidents of the Alpine Club, when in 1871, in commemoration of his own first ascents of the Schreckhorn and Rothhorn, he published his ''Playground of Europe''. During the eleven years of his editorship, in addition to three volumes of critical studies, he made two valuable contributions to philosophical history and theory: ''The History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century'' (1876 and 1881) and ''The Science of Ethics'' (1882); the second of these was extensively adopted as a textbook on the subject. The first was generally recognized as an important addition to philosophical literature and led immediately to Stephen's election at the Athenaeum Club in 1877 . Stephen also served as the first editor (1885 - 1891) of the '' Dictionary Of National Biography ''. WORKS
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