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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Arnold Bennett | Margaret Drabble
began work on her biography of AB
(published in 1974) in a partisan spirit, because she felt Bennett was seriously undervalued. She was, she wrote, surprised to find she enjoyed and respected... |
Instructor | A. S. Byatt | At Cambridge she was influenced by F. R. Leavis
. Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A.S. Byatt. Twayne. 4 |
Reception | A. S. Byatt | ASB
later found her own original work severe and Leavis
ite. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 500 |
Education | Angela Carter | She said later that she chose medieval literature because she wanted freedom from the dictates of F. R. Leavis
, freedom to read the modernists without developing critical ideas about them. Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan. 55 |
Reception | Nancy Cunard | The reviews for this book were mixed. Amabel Williams-Ellis
said in The Spectator that the poems showed a permeating sense of effort not to be young lady-ish. Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf. 95 |
Instructor | Margaret Drabble | One of her teachers was F. R. Leavis
. Creighton, Joanne V. Margaret Drabble. Methuen. 25 Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, pp. 6-7. 6 Drabble, Margaret. “1960s”. The Guardian, pp. Weekend 25 - 31. 28 |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Ashton suggests that GE
anticipated the case made in Theodor Herzl
's The Jewish State, 1896. The first Jewish readers of the novel were delighted and impressed both by GE
's deep knowledge and... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | The critical tide did not turn (despite some acute criticism from Virginia Woolf
, who called Middlemarchthe magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Early twentieth-century critics represented EG
as a thoroughly domestic and womanly woman—Lord David Cecil
in Early Victorian Novelists described her as the typical Victorian woman: gentle, domestic, tactful, unintellectual, prone to tears, easily... |
Education | Maggie Gee | MG
gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge
by Queenie Leavis
, whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats
in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis |
Literary responses | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Almost all reviewers were baffled by GMH
's poetry at its first appearance, and chose to think of Bridges as indulging an eccentric personal loyalty. When the second edition was published in 1930, on the... |
Instructor | Elizabeth Jenkins | Then, during the years 1924-7, EJ
studied at Newnham College, Cambridge
. She realised the value of this education at the time, but not so profoundly as she did later. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 18 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | To mark the centenary of Charles Dickens
's death, QDL
and F. R. Leavis
published Dickens: The Novelist, their reassessment of his cultural significance, dedicated by each to the other. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 369, 372 |
Author summary | Q. D. Leavis | In her socio-anthropological critical monographs and essays, QDL
evaluates literature by examining it in the context of the culture from which it emerges. She focuses on intellectual, social, and moral elements of literary work, and... |
Cultural formation | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
lived all of her life in London and Cambridge. Herself of Jewish, Polish, and German heritage, she was intensely concerned with English writers, readers, and notions of Englishness. She had a lasting... |