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Early Life and Family
Katharine Stephen was born in London on 26 February 1856, the daughter of Mary Richenda Cunningham (1829–1912) and James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894), a judge. She was the niece of Caroline Stephen and the cousin of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

Work
Katharine Stephen worked at Newnham College, Cambridge. She first joined the college as Helen Gladstone's secretary, and worked with Anne Jemima Clough to teach working men on Sunday mornings in St Matthew's Schoolroom, Barnwell. She was appointed Librarian of Newnham's 'first purpose-built library' in 1888. She went on to become Vice-Principal and, in 1911, Principal of the college during the First World War years, and kept her seat on the Council after her retirement in 1920.

Publications
French History for English Children, published under the pseudonym Sarah Brook in 1881; expanded and reprinted as French History for Schools in 1899.

Three Sixteenth Century Sketches (1884), under the pseudonym Sarah Brook.