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

The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by his brother Leslie Stephen(1895) is the biography of one eminent Victorian by another.This is the only modern edition available.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 theSaturday Reviewand thePall Mall Gazette; and inLiberty, Equality, Fraternity(1873) the hard-hitting assailant of John Stuart Mill. Fitzjames's younger brother Leslie was founding editor of theDictionary of National Biographyand 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 ofThe Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephenis 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an introductory essay by Hermione Lee, extensive notes, four appendices of additional documents (many previously unpublished), and a bibliography of Fitzjames Stephen's articles and reviews by Thomas E. Schneider.Introductory Essay,Hermione LeeEditorial PrefaceThe Life of Sir James Fitzjames StephenAppendix 1: Obituary, ReviewsAppendix 2: James Fitzjames Stephen, 'The Wealth of Nature'Appendix 3: Extracts from James Fitzjames Stephen's AutobiographyAppendix 4: LettersA Bibliography of James l(