Sir Leslie Stephen

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Born	November 28, 1832 • London • England
Died	February 22, 1904 (aged 71) • London • England
Notable Works	“English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century” • “History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century”
Notable Family Members	daughter Virginia Woolf • daughter Vanessa Bell

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British dramatist

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Sir J. C. Squire

British journalist and author

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Danish writer and critic

Samuel Johnson

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English author

Geoffrey Grigson

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Virginia Woolf

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William Makepeace Thackeray

British author

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William Hazlitt

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John Wain

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Sir Edmund Gosse

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T.E. Hulme

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