Julia Duckworth (née Jackson), ca. 1860s

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Julia Duckworth (née Jackson), ca. 1860s

According to her second husband Leslie Stephen, Julia’s “beauty was of a kind which seems to imply—as most certainly did accompany—equal beauty of soul, refinement nobility, and tenderness of character.

Julia was the mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

source: Smith College Libraries

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