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Virginia Woolf - Free Online Library |
 | | Virginia Woolf was born in London as the daughter of Julia Jackson Duckworth, a member of the Duckworth publishing family, and Leslie Stephen, a literary critic and friend of Meredith, Henry James, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and George Eliot, and the founder of the Dictionary of National Biography. |
 | | Leslie Stephen's first wife had been the daughter of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. |
 | | Leslie Stephen, her father, suffered a slow death from cancer. |
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