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Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904)
Stephen, Sir Leslie. A distinguished English critic and man of letters; born in London, Nov. 28, 1832; died there, Feb. 22, 1904. He was educated at Cambridge, and subsequently edited leading London periodicals. His greatest undertaking was the ‘Dictionary of National Biography,’ in about 60 volumes, of which he edited the first 26. He published: ‘Hours in a Library’ (1871–79); ‘Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking’ (1873); ‘History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century’ (1876); ‘Science of Ethics’ (1882); ‘Life of Henry Fawcett’ (1885); ‘An Agnostic’s Apology’ (1893); ‘Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen’ (1896); ‘Social Rights and Duties’ (1896); ‘Studies of a Biographer’ (1899, 1902). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).