Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and father of Virginia Woolf, wrote this life of his elder brother, the jurist and controversialist. It follows the family’s Clapham Sect inheritance, Fitzjames’s early years and his double career at the bar and in journalism, his time as legal member of the Viceroy’s council codifying Indian law, and his years as a judge.
A frank, intimate portrait of a formidable Victorian mind, written by a brother who was a great biographer in his own right. Download the free EPUB.