Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
Excerpt: "Caroline Emelia Stephen, born on December 8, 1834, was notable for a number of reasons. Her connections were impressive: she was the unmarried daughter of Sir James Stephen (the noted Under-Secretary for the Colonies in 1836-1847), the sister of Leslie Stephen (author of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), sister-in-law to Minny Thackeray Stephen and Anny Thackeray Ritchie (daughters of William Makepeace Thackeray), and aunt to Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Her grandfather, also Sir James Stephen, wrote the legislation that ended slavery in England. Known as a Quaker mystic, she is credited with bringing about the revival of the Society of Friends in the latter part of the nineteenth century through writings about her conversion."
Recommended Citation
Heininge, Kathleen A., "Caroline Emelia Stephen" (2010). Faculty Publications - Department of English. 120.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/eng_fac/120
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This was originally published as “Caroline Stephen,” pages 578-579, in The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, edited by George Thomas Kurian and James D, Smith III, 2010, reproduced by permission of Rowman & Littlefield.
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