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Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge (through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
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
Textual Features Q. D. Leavis
QDL 's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...
Education Q. D. Leavis
QDL defended her Cambridge dissertation, which was supervised by I. A. Richards , with E. M. Forster as external advisor.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
130, 132
“Obituary: Mrs. Q.D. Leavis”. Times, p. 16.
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Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
QDL published her first major work of literary criticism: Fiction and the Reading Public, a slightly revised version of her recent Cambridge dissertation, Fiction and the Reading Public: A Study in Social Anthropology.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
130, 135
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.
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as well as sketches and novellas). But later she cast them on the flames as...
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...
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...
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.
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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
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
Though often submissive in attitudes, JCM was capable of satire or lampoon. The Receipt, an Imitation, dating from about 1720, lists the unsavoury ingredients that go to compose a blockhead Cambridge clergyman (as Pope

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