Author:Leslie Stephen

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Leslie Stephen (1832–1904)

English biographer and critic, the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (1885 to 1891), and father of Virginia Woolf. This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901. Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "L. S." This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "L. S."

Leslie Stephen

Works

Books

• Alexander Pope (scan index)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• 1. “Remarks on the Influence of Science,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 24, November 1883
• 2. “Ethics and the Struggle for Existence,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 44, December 1893

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900

• Adams, William (1706-1789)
• Addison, Joseph
• Aikenhead, Thomas
• Aldrich, Henry
• Alison, Archibald (1757-1839)
• Alison, Archibald (1792-1867)
• Allardice, Robert Barclay
• Allen, Thomas (1681-1755)
• Allen, William (1770-1843)
• Alsop, Anthony
• Amory, Thomas (1691?-1788)
• Andrewes, Gerrard
• Annesley, James
• Annet, Peter
• Arblay, Frances
• Arbuthnot, John
• Asgill, John
• Ashe, St. George
• Austen, Jane
• Backhouse, Edward
• Bailey, Samuel
• Balguy, John
• Balguy, Thomas
• Bampfylde, John Codrington
• Barclay, Robert (1648-1690)
• Barnard, Edward (1717-1781)
• Baron, Richard
• Baron, Robert (1593?-1639)
• Barratt, Alfred
• Bate, Julius
• Baxter, Andrew
• Berkeley, George
• Blackburne, Francis (1705-1787)
• Blacklock, Thomas
• Blair, Hugh
• Blandy, Mary
• Blount, Charles (1654-1693)
• Bohun, Edmund
• Boswell, James (1740-1795)
• Bott, Thomas
• Brett, Thomas
• Brontë, Charlotte
• Brown, John (1715-1766)
• Brown, Thomas (1778-1820)
• Browne, Peter
• Browne, Simon
• Browne, William (1692-1774)
• Brydges, James
• Buckle, Henry Thomas
• Budgell, Eustace
• Burgh, James (1714-1775)
• Burnet, Thomas
• Burns, Robert
• Burrow, Reuben
• Burton, Hezekiah
• Butler, Joseph
• Byrom, John
• Byron, George Gordon
• Cairnes, John Elliot
• Calverley, Charles Stuart
• Cameron, Charles Hay
• Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)
• Campbell, George (1719-1796)
• Carey, Henry
• Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
• Cartwright, Christopher
• Chandler, Edward
• Chandler, Samuel
• Chubb, Thomas
• Churchill, Charles
• Churchill, John
• Clare, John
• Clark, William George
• Clarke, Henry
• Clarke, Samuel (1599-1683)
• Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729)
• Clifford, William Kingdon
• Clough, Arthur Hugh
• Cockburn, Catherine
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
• Collier, Arthur
• Collins, Anthony
• Collins, William (1721-1759)
• Combe, George
• Concanen, Matthew
• Congreve, William (1670-1729)
• Cooper, Anthony Ashley (1671-1713)
• Coward, William (1657?-1725)
• Cowley, Abraham
• Cowper, Spencer
• Cowper, William
• Crabbe, George
• Cradock, Joseph
• Cromek, Robert Hartley
• Cross, Mary Ann
• Cudworth, Ralph
• Culverwel, Nathanael
• Cumberland, Richard (1631-1718)
• Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
• Cunningham, Allan
• Cunningham, John William
• Cyples, William
• Damer, Anne Seymour
• Darwin, Erasmus
• Davies, Sneyd
• Davies, Thomas (1712?-1785)
• Davis, Henry Edwards
• Day, Thomas
• Defoe, Daniel
• Delany, Mary
• Delany, Patrick
• De Morgan, Augustus
• De Quincey, Thomas
• Derham, William (1657-1735)
• Desmaizeaux, Pierre
• Dickens, Charles
• Ditton, Humphrey
• Dodd, William
• Dodington, George Bubb
• Douglas, John (1721-1807)
• Drew, Samuel
• Dryden, John
• Duck, Stephen
• Dunton, John
• Dyer, George
• Dyer, John
• Dymond, Jonathan
• Edgeworth, Maria
• Edgeworth, Richard Lovell
• Edwards, Thomas (1699-1757)
• Elstob, Elizabeth
• Elstob, William
• Etherege, George (1635?-1691)
• Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
• Falconer, William (1732-1769)
• Farquhar, George
• Fawcett, Henry
• Feilding, Robert
• Ferrier, James Frederick
• Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone
• Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)
• Fielding, John
• Fielding, Sarah
• Filmer, Robert
• Flecknoe, Richard
• Fleming, Margaret
• Forbes, Duncan (1685-1747)
• Foster, James
• Francis, Philip (1740-1818)
• Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661)
• Gethin, Grace
• Gibbon, Edward
• Gifford, John
• Gifford, William (1756-1826)
• Gildon, Charles
• Gisborne, Maria
• Gisborne, Thomas (1758-1846)
• Glanvill, Joseph
• Glover, Richard
• Godolphin, Margaret
• Godolphin, Sidney (1610-1643)
• Godolphin, Sidney (1645-1712)
• Godolphin, William
• Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft
• Godwin, William (1803-1832)
• Godwin, William (1756-1836)
• Goldsmith, Oliver
• Goodall, Joseph
• Gordon, George (1751-1793)
• Gordon, Thomas (d.1750)
• Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
• Green, Matthew
• Green, Thomas Hill
• Grey, Zachary
• Gurney, Russell
• Hallam, Henry
• Hamilton, William (1788-1856)
• Harrington, James (1611-1677)
• Harris, James
• Hartley, David (1705-1757)
• Hawkins, John (1719-1789)
• Hazlitt, William
• Higgins, Matthew James
• Hill, Aaron
• Hobbes, Thomas
• Hoole, John
• Horneck, Anthony
• Hume, David (1711-1776)
• Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746)
• Hutchinson, John (1674-1737)
• Jeffrey, Francis
• Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
• Kinglake, Alexander William
• Kingsley, Charles
• Kingsley, Henry
• Landor, Walter Savage
• Langton, Bennet
• Law, William (1686-1761)
• Leechman, William
• Leland, John (1691-1766)
• Lewes, George Henry
• Lewis, Matthew Gregory
• Locke, John (1632-1704)
• Lockhart, John Gibson
• Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-
• Macaulay, Thomas Babington
• Macaulay, Zachary
• Mackintosh, James (1765-1832)
• Maine, Henry James Sumner
• Malthus, Thomas Robert
• Mandeville, Bernard
• Mansel, Henry Longueville
• Martineau, Harriet
• Mason, William (1724-1797)
• Maurice, Frederick Denison
• Merivale, Herman
• Middleton, Conyers
• Mill, James (1773-1836)
• Mill, John Stuart
• Millar, John (1735-1801)
• Milton, John (1608-1674)
• Molesworth, William
• Montagu, Mary Wortley
• More, Hannah
• Morgan, Thomas
• Morison, James Augustus Cotter
• Napier, Macvey
• Nelson, Robert
• Newton, Thomas (1704-1782)
• Norris, John (1657-1711)
• North, Marianne
• Oliphant, Laurence
• Owen, Robert
• Paine, Thomas
• Paley, William
• Parr, Samuel
• Pearce, Zachary
• Pepys, Samuel
• Philips, Ambrose
• Piozzi, Hester Lynch
• Poole, Thomas
• Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
• Praed, Winthrop Mackworth
• Raikes, Robert
• Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
• Ricardo, David
• Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761)
• Rickman, John
• Robertson, George Croom
• Saint-John, Henry
• Scott, Walter (1771-1832)
• Senior, Nassau William
• Smith, Adam
• Smith, Sydney
• Spedding, James
• Stephen, Alfred
• Stephen, George
• Stephen, Henry John
• Stephen, James (1758-1832)
• Stephen, James (1789-1859) (his father)
• Stephen, James Fitzjames
• Stewart, Dugald
• Swift, Jonathan
• Taylor, Henry (1800-1886)
• Thackeray, William Makepeace
• Thornton, Henry
• Tindal, Matthew
• Toland, John
• Tooke, John Horne
• Tucker, Abraham
• Tucker, Josiah
• Warburton, William
• Whewell, William
• Whiston, William
• White, Joseph Blanco
• Wilberforce, William
• Wollaston, William (1660-1724)
• Wordsworth, William
• Young, Edward

& 1901 Supplement

• Payn, James
• Sidgwick, Henry

Contributions to the EB1911

• “Browning, Robert” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Carlyle, Thomas” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.