Virginia Woolf Gallery

Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1867. Creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1867. This portrait of Julia Jackson, suggests Christian and classical ideals of purity, strength, and grace. The photograph was made the year Julia married Herbert Duckworth. Her second marriage, in 1878, to the great Victorian intellectual Sir Leslie Stephen, produced the painter Vanessa Bell and the writer Virginia Woolf. In her novel To the Lighthouse (1927), Virginia portrayed her mother as the searching, sensitive Mrs. Ramsay, ever suspended in thought

© Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Jack Hills (1867-1938), 1896 (b/w photo)

XJF391586 Jack Hills (1867-1938), 1896 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Rt Hon John Waller Hills, PC, MP, b. 2 Jan 1867, Belgrave Road, Pimlico, London, d. 24 Dec 1938, Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, London. Politician and angler, the second son of Herbert Augustus Hills of Highhead Castle, Cumberland, a barrister who was a judge of the International Court of Appeal, Cairo, until 1903, and his wife, Anna, daughter of William Robert Grove, the scientist and judge. He was educated at Eton College and at Balliol College, Oxford. He read for the bar, but was admitted a solicitor in 1897, when he became a partner in the firm Hills and Halsey. He married Stella, the eldest daughter of Herbert Duckworth. step-daughter of Leslie Stephens. Shortly after the marriage Stella was taken ill with peritonitis, and she died in July 1897. Hills made over the income on her marriage settlement to her half-sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. With Vanessa he developed a close relationship, though marriage was ruled out by her position as his deceased wife's sister, while to Virginia he was the subject of tart comment and an object of humour. He re-married in 1831, to Mary Grace Ashton who bore him a son, the future Sir Andrew Ashton Waller Hills.
); English, out of copyright

© Copyright: www.bridgemanimages.com

Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895), 1874. Creator: Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815-1879)

Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895), 1874. One of the renowned beauties of Victorian England, Jackson is seen in the two photographs to the left the year she married barrister Herbert Duckworth at age 21. He died three years later, leaving her with two children and a third on the way. She is seen here at age 28, a Victorian tragic heroine haunted by grief. Pale and hollow-eyed, although still lovely, she stands before a wall of ivy, an evergreen plant that signified eternity and fidelity. Four years later, Duckworth married biographer Sir Leslie Stephen with whom she had four children, including author Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell. Julia Jackson Duckworth Stephen died of rheumatic fever in 1895 at age 49

© Heritage Art/Heritage Images