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Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth) (1846-1895), Wife of Sir Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

Sitter in 8 portraits
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. From her second marriage to the historian, Leslie Stephen, she was the mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

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Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth)

by The London Photographic Company
albumen print on card, circa 1867
NPG x18076

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Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth); Mia Jackson

by The London Photographic Company
albumen print, circa 1867
NPG x1587

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Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth)

by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, oval, April 1867
NPG x18018

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Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth)

by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1867
NPG x18016

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Gerald Duckworth; Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth)

by Oscar Gustave Rejlander
albumen carte-de-visite, 1871
NPG x128763

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Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth)

by Julia Margaret Cameron, distributed by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio)
albumen print on card, 1872
NPG x18052

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Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth); Gerald Duckworth

by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1872
NPG x18017

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Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Mrs Duckworth)

by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1872
NPG x18019

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Woolf
Related People
Julian Heward Bell (grandson)
Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (grandson)
Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) (daughter)
(Karin) Judith Henderson (née Stephen) (granddaughter)
Adrian Stephen (son)
Sir Leslie Stephen (husband)
Thoby Stephen (son)
Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen) (granddaughter)
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (daughter)