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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | F. R. Leavis
published his essay collection The Common Pursuit (dedicated to QDL
). He wrote that she had helped him with the selection and arrangement of the essays. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2613 (29 February 1952): 149 Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth. 79 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | After F. R. Leavis's death in 1978, QDL
began to prepare a short memoir on him, to be included in an upcoming collection of his essays. She wrote notes and sketches for this, but left... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
and F. R. Leavis
published their joint collection of literary criticism, Lectures in America. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1970 Kinch, M. B. et al. F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland. 16 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | Many studies of the Leavises' careers have been published, both during and after their lifetimes. These have concentrated mainly on F. R. Leavis
, but Ian MacKillop
in 1995 broke new ground in attention to QDL
. |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Q. D. Leavis | Two of her contemporaries as undergraduates were Muriel Bradbrook
(at Girton) and William Empson
(whom her future husband, F. R. Leavis
, came to admire especially). MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 85-6, 100 |
Cultural formation | Q. D. Leavis | At this time Queenie was a member of the JewishStudents' Society
. She ate kosher food sent from home, and with her friend Sophie Baron
, she attended services at the Thompson's Lane synagogue. Her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | At the beginning of her last year as an undergraduate, Queenie Roth (later QDL
) met her future husband, Cambridge don and critic F. R. Leavis
, at a Girton College
tea. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 100 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | Q. D. Roth
and F. R. Leavis
were married, having been engaged since February of this year. Their first of several homes, christened The Criticastery, was in Leys Road, Cambridge. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 104, 107-8 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
delivered her first child, a son named Ralph
. She and F. R. Leavis
had two other children: Katharine Laura
, born in September 1939, and Lawrence Robin
, born in December 1944. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 152, 222 |
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