1. Caroline Stephen's father was the permanent under-secretary for the colonies.
15 Facts About Caroline Stephen
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Caroline Stephen's brothers were the jurist Sir James Fitzjames Stephen and Sir Leslie Stephen who was the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
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Caroline Stephen was educated by governesses in a literary and religious home.
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Caroline Stephen's home moved from London to Brighton and back to Windsor and then Wimbledon.
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Caroline Stephen's father retired from government work when she was a teenager and she moved again when he became Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University.
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Caroline Stephen is said to have had a love affair that ended badly in 1857.
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Caroline Stephen was moved to charitable works in the 1860s and she published The Service of the Poor in 1871 after discussing her hypothesis with Florence Nightingale.
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Caroline Stephen began discussions of faith with Robert Were Fox.
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Caroline Stephen decided to become a Quaker and she left behind her parents' evangelical Christianity.
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Caroline Stephen looked after her mother until she died when she co-founded the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants with her cousin, Sara Stephen.
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Caroline Stephen's book made her the most well known female Quaker amongst those who read books.
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Caroline Stephen was an anti-suffragist as she considered that the silent majority of women did not want a change to the status quo.
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Caroline Stephen moved to Cambridge in 1895 where she was able to witness to students at Newnham and Girton College about the beliefs of Quakers.
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Caroline Stephen was assisted at Newnham by her niece, Katharine Stephen, who was the principal of Newnham College.
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Caroline Stephen died at her home in Cambridge on 7 April 1909.