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A sepia portrait of a teenage girl with bangs and hair pulled back, wearing a high-collared top and posing in front of a curtain.
Section 1: Early Years Introduction
A black and white image of a middle-aged woman wearing a dress with her hair tied back and a middle-aged man with a dark beard wearing a suit, both seated in an armchair and each holding an open book, in a living room with floral wallpaper, paintings, and bookshelves, with a young girl seated behind them

Julia and Leslie Stephen
A sepia portrait of a teenage girl with bangs and hair pulled back, wearing a high-collared top and posing in front of a curtain.

Portrait photograph of Virginia Stephen

Photographer unknown
Virginia Stephen
ca. 1895

: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

: Virginia Woolf collection of papers

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  • A sepia portrait of a teenage girl with bangs and hair pulled back, wearing a high-collared top and posing in front of a curtain.

    Section 1: Early Years Introduction

  • A sepia portrait of a teenage girl with bangs and hair pulled back, wearing a high-collared top and posing in front of a curtain.

    Virginia Stephen

  • A black and white image of a middle-aged woman wearing a dress with her hair tied back and a middle-aged man with a dark beard wearing a suit, both seated in an armchair and each holding an open book, in a living room with floral wallpaper, paintings, and bookshelves, with a young girl seated behind them

    Julia and Leslie Stephen

  • A faded black and white image of two girls wearing dresses, one of them bending with a cricket bat leaning against the ground

    Virginia and Vanessa Stephen

  • A diary entry dated Saturday, January 1st, 1898 lays open to two handwritten pages ending with the underlined phrase, "The end of 1897".

    January 1st, 1898

  • A piece of loose paper with fading and creases with handwritten text under the heading "Haworth: November, 1904."

    “Haworth: November, 1904“

  • The front of a hand-bound sheaf of papers is written in red and black ink with the heading "An Address of Congratulation to our Mistress on her Approaching Marriage," followed by a letter.

    Letter to Vanessa Stephen

  • A sepia portrait of a teenage girl with bangs and hair pulled back, wearing a high-collared top and posing in front of a curtain.

    Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind