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Employer | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop
notes, her work recalls Wordsworth
's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 140 |
Reception | Q. D. Leavis | However, an early and strongly condemnatory review appeared from F. L. Lucas
of King's College
. Lucas argued that QDL
's élitist, ineffective scholarship idealized both pre-industrial literacy and contemporary highbrow culture. To inform one's... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
achieved a Class II in the English Tripos (the first of two exams deciding class of degree awarded) at Cambridge
. This was the first year that women were awarded degrees, at least in name. Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 55 “Fact sheet: Women at Cambridge: A Chronology”. University of Cambridge. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | Rudolph Lehmann was a writer and poet, one-time editor of the Daily News, a contributor to (and at times editor of) Punch, founder of Granta (Cambridge University
's magazine), and, briefly, a... |
Publishing | Rosamond Lehmann | From the age of eight RL
spent whole mornings writing (verse dramas, epics, lyrics and narrative poems, Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 27 |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | Her eponymous Leonard Leuniger is a male Jewish undergraduate at Cambridge
, a budding writer. He makes upper-class friends at university whose antisemitism only gradually reveals itself, cruelly frustrating his efforts to win their approval... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Macaulay | RM
's father
was appointed to a Lectureship in English at Cambridge University
, and the family moved to Great Shelford, four miles from Cambridge. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 96, 101 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 49 |
Reception | Rose Macaulay | RM
received an Honorary DLitt from Cambridge University
; the award was a major event in the last decade of her life. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 308-9 Bensen, Alice. Rose Macaulay. Twayne. chronology |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Macaulay | This was the first full-length critical work on Forster. It expressed admiration for his writing, but some amusement or impatience over what it presents as his obsession with Englishness and with the all-male educational world... |
Textual Features | Cecily Mackworth | At last he says he will teach her no more: he feels he is leading her into the temptation of worldliness. Mr Howells, it turns out, once studied at Cambridge
(as the first scholarship boy... |
Characters | Judith Cowper Madan |
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