Celebrated beauty and philanthropist. Mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and wife of Sir Leslie Stephen. They married each other after being widowed and the household contained the children of three marriages. She descended from an attendant of Marie Antoinette, coming from a family of renowned beauties. The niece and goddaughter of Julia Margaret Cameron and, like her, a member of the artistic circle which gathered at Little Holland House. She was a renowned beauty and a favourite of the Pre-Raphaelites and sat for Burne-Jones, as well as G. F. Watts and her godmother. She died from influenza, when Virginia was 13, which led to the first of Virginia's several nervous breakdowns.
Celebrated beauty and philanthropist. Mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and wife of Sir Leslie Stephen. They married each other after being widowed and the household contained the children of three marriages. She descended from an attendant of Marie Antoinette, coming from a family of renowned beauties. The niece and goddaughter of Julia Margaret Cameron and, like her, a member of the artistic circle which gathered at Little Holland House. She was a renowned beauty and a favourite of the Pre-Raphaelites and sat for Burne-Jones, as well as G. F. Watts and her godmother. She died from influenza, when Virginia was 13, which led to the first of Virginia's several nervous breakdowns.
