Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth)
1 portrait by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth)
by Julia Margaret Cameron, distributed by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio)
carbon print on cabinet card, 1872
5 1/2 in. x 4 in. (141 mm x 103 mm) image size
Given by Cordelia Curle (née Fisher), 1959
Photographs Collection
NPG x18052
Sitterback to top
- Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth) (1846-1895), Beauty and philanthropist; former wife of Herbert Duckworth, and later wife of Sir Leslie Stephen; mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Sitter in 8 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), Pioneer photographer. Artist or producer associated with 119 portraits, Sitter in 9 portraits.
- Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio) (founded 1886), Photographic Studio. Artist or producer associated with 35 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This photograph was taken after the death of Julia Jackson's first husband, Herbert Duckworth. She was devastated and called her life 'a shipwreck'. Leslie Stephen had also been widowed and the couple, close friends and neighbours, were drawn together by their bereavement.
Events of 1872back to top
Current affairs
The (Secret) Ballot Act is passed. By ending open voting in local and general elections, the act reduced the scope for intimidation at hustings, an important step towards democracy. Previously, voters had to mount a platform and announce their choice of candidate to a recording officer, so although most working men had already been enfranchised, employers were able to punish workers who did not vote for their preferred candidate.Art and science
George Eliot's novel Middlemarch is published. Exploring the impact of the 1832 Reform Act on provincial England, and charting the changes in class, politics, art and science in the nineteenth-century, Eliot's novel is widely perceived to be one of the best examples of the English realist novel.International
The Metaphysical Club is formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by William James (brother of author Henry James), Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr, and Charles Sanders Peirce. The group begins to develop the American philosophy of pragmatism, which held that ideas were simply mental constructs that people formed to help them cope with the world, but which did not exist in an ideal realm.Comments back to top
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