Leslie Stephen 
Studies of a Biographer, Volume 3 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

The prolific biographer, first editor of the 26 volumes of the
Dictionary of National Biography, and father of Virginia Woolf, shares secrets of the trade in this wide-ranging collection of essays. This third of four volumes published from 1898-1902 includes ‘The Browning Letters, ‘ ‘John Donne, ‘ ‘John Ruskin, ‘ ‘William Godwin’s Novels, ‘ ‘Walter Bagehot, ‘ ‘Thomas Henry Huxley, ‘ ‘James Anthony Froude, ‘ and ‘In Praise of Walking.’

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Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was a British biographer, journalist, literary critic, and avid mountaineer. His works include The Playground of Europe (1871), Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking (1873), The Utilitarians (1900), and biographies of Johnson, Pope, Swift, Eliot, and Hobbes. He was the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.