Caroline Emelia Stephen or Milly Stephen was a British philanthropist and a writer on Quakerism.
Background
Stephen was born on 8 December 1834 at Kensington Gore on Hyde Park Gate in London. She was the daughter of the abolitionist Sir James and Jane Catherine (born Venn) Stephen. Her father was the permanent under-secretary for the colonies.
Her father retired from government work when she was a teenager and she moved again when he became a (mostly honorary) Regis history professor at University.
Education
She was educated by governesses in a literary and religious home.
Career
Her brothers were the jurist Sir James Fitzjames Stephen and Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) who was the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. Her home moved from London to Brighton and back to Windsor and then Wimbledon. Stephen is said to have had a love affair that ended badly in 1857.
However despite Leslie"s expertise as a biographer there does not appear to be any corroboration for this accountant
Stephen died at her home in on 7 April 1909. In 1911 Katherine Stephen published The Vision of Faith and other Essays which contained Caroline Stephen"s writing.