Leslie Stephen
1832–1904
Author and literary critic. Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1854–67; tutor, 1856–62. Left Cambridge for London in 1864 to pursue a literary career. Contributed articles to newspapers and journals on a wide variety of subjects. Editor of the Cornhill Magazine, 1871–82. First editor of the Dictionary of national biography from 1882. Knighted, 1902.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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