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Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by His Brother Lesley Stephen

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by His Brother Lesley Stephen

Author: Christopher Tolley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199578535
Published In: July 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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James Fitzjames Stephen was a distinguished jurist, a codifier of the law in England and India, and the judge in the ill-fated Maybrick case; a serious and prolific journalist, a pillar of the Saturday Review and the Pall Mall Gazette; and in Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873) the hard-hitting assailant of John Stuart Mill. Fitzjames's younger brother Leslie was founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and father of Virginia Woolf. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by his brother Leslie Stephen (1895) is the biography of one eminent Victorian by another. It is a lucid and affectionate portrait, yet far from uncritical, as revealing of its author as its subject. With a narrative that embraces legal history, the government of India, the Victorian press, the crisis of religious faith, and the 'paradise lost' of political liberalism, the biography is also an indispensable source for the history of the Stephen family, which belonged to what Noel Annan called the 'intellectual aristocracy' of the nineteenth century, connecting the Clapham Sect to the Bloomsbury group. This first modern edition of The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen is a volume in the OUP series Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen. It includes an introductory essay by Hermione Lee, extensive notes, four appendices of additional documents (many previously unpublished), and a bibliography of Fitzjames Stephen's articles and reviews by Thomas E. Schneider.

Introductory Essay, Hermione Lee

Editorial Preface

The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen

Appendix 1: Obituary, Reviews

Appendix 2: James Fitzjames Stephen, 'The Wealth of Nature'

Appendix 3: Extracts from James Fitzjames Stephen's Autobiography

Appendix 4: Letters

A Bibliography of James Fitzjames Stephen's Articles and Reviews, Thomas E. Schneider