Beschreibung:
The biography, published in 1906, of the leading Victorian literary figure and founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
1. Introduction; 2. Parentage; 3. Boyhood (1832-50); 4. The undergraduate (1850-4); 5. Sketches of a don at Cambridge (1854-64); 6. The playground of Europe (1855-94); 7. The Times and the war (1863-5); 8. Free-thinking and plain-speaking (1862-5); 9. Journalism (1865-71); 10. The first marriage (1865-71); 11. Hours in a library (1867-73); 12. More hours in a library (1873-5); 13. Cornhill and Schreckhorn (1871-5); 14. Wordsworth's ethics (1875-8); 15. The second marriage (1878); 16. An ethical treatise (1878-82); 17. Tramps and contributors (1879-91); 18. The struggle with the Dictionary (1882-91); 19. An agnostics apology (1891-5); 20. Studies of a biographer (1895-1902); 21. The sunset (1902-4); Appendix I. Leslie Stephen's works; II. List of the Sunday Tramps; Index.