“Redheads have moved history out of proportion to their numbers.”
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
643) Julia Stephen
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; 1846 – 1895). Celebrated English
woman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and
philanthropist. She was the wife of the biographer Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of the
Bloomsbury Group.
Julia Jackson was born in Calcutta to an
Anglo-Indian family, and when she was two her mother and her two sisters
moved back to England. She became the favourite model of her aunt, the
celebrated photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, who made more than 50
portraits of her.
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