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Literary responses | Q. D. Leavis | Much later estimates continued to assimilate Q. D.'s work to that of F. R., and to repeat the original Lucas estimate. Near the end of QDL
's life, Francis Mulhern
in The Moment of "Scrutiny"... |
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... |
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... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
spent most of her Amy Mary Preston Read scholarship money establishing the journal Scrutiny, in conjunction with her husband
. She worked as a contributor and editor from the journal's inception in May... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | By 1950, QDL
was feeling the strain of drudging for [her] husband
and Scrutiny, leaving her no time for [her] own purposes. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 266 |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | On invitation from the British Council
, Q. D.
and F. R. Leavis
visited Finland: F. R. lectured and Q. D. led seminars at the universities of Helsinki and Abo (the Swedish name of what... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | Working again through the British Council
, Q. D.
and F. R. Leavis
lectured on Austen
, Eliot
, and Yeats
in Rome, Milan, Padua, and Bologna. Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth. 283-4 |
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... |
Reception | A. S. Byatt | ASB
later found her own original work severe and Leavis
ite. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins. 500 |
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 |
Reception | Q. D. Leavis | With some minor exceptions, interactions between QDL
and Virginia Woolf
were hostile. Both Leavises regularly took up an anti-Bloomsbury stance in their lecturing and writing. After reading QDL
's review, Woolf remarked in her... |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | This book drew accusations of plagiarism from F. R. Leavis
, another critic with strong views as to what was valuable or otherwise in literature, but one whom ES
despised. Her obituarist later noted that... |
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