Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by his brother Leslie Stephen - Hardcover

Lee, Hermione; Schneider, Thomas E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199578532 ISBN 13: 9780199578535

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 Oxofrd 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an introductory essay by Hermione Lee, extensive notes, four appendices of additional documents (many previously unpublished), and a bibliography of Fitzjames Stephen's articles and reviews by Thomas E. Schneider.

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Tolley teaches at Winchester College. He is the author of Domestic Biography, a study of life-writing in four nineteenth-century families, which won the Royal Historical Society Whitfield prize.

Review

"The book is indeed âa narrative that embraces legal history, the government of India, the Victorian press, the crisis of religious faith..."paradise lost" of political liberalism...' and much more. A treasure trove of fact, anecdote and analysis, it provides illuminating insights into the intellectual ferment that characterised the Victorian age. For lawyers and non-lawyers alike, it is a fascinating read."--Phillip Taylor, 'A narrative that embraces legal history' the biography of an eminent Victorian jurist by his brother, Leslie Stephen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0199578532
• ISBN 13: 9780199578535
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: Tolley Christopher