F. R. Leavis

F. R. Leavis , husband of QDL , died after nearly fifty years of marriage and nearly a year of suffering from black-outs, exhaustion and sad loss of reason.

Francis Mulhern in The Moment of "Scrutiny", 1979, argued that QDL 's Fiction and the Reading Public was the logical successor of F. R. Leavis 's first, slim publication, Mass Civilization and Minority Culture...

F. R. Leavis and Denys Thompson issued the textbook Culture and Environment: The Training of Critical Awareness—later judged so much indebted to QDLthat it is surprising her name did not appear on the title-page.

As co-editor, contributor (of nearly fifty pieces), and administrator, QDL was one of the dominant forces behind Scrutiny, the literary journal founded by her husband , herself, and their students, and based at Cambridge

In the year that F. R. Leavis issued his canonical treatment of canon development, The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, QDL called it in a letter my husband's, or rather our...

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...

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.

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...

QDL and F. R. Leavis published their joint collection of literary criticism, Lectures in America.

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 .

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...

Though Thomas's reputation has often been assailed (by the Movement poets, by F. R. Leavis , by Welsh nationalists), he now rests in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; a first edition of Under Milk...

In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW 's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite student of English literature. The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...