MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane.
130, 132
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Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
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. 16 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
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. 27 |
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. 49 |
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 |
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