Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
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politics | Emily Davies | The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade
in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
refused to deliver the Clark lecture series at Cambridge University
, thereby also declining to succeed her father, scholar Leslie Stephen
, in this honour. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 172 |
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... |
Publishing | Ann Jebb | |
Publishing | Maggie Gee | MG
was chosen for publication in the Cambridge University
magazine Granta in 1983, and has contributed to The Guardian, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Mslexia, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday... |
Publishing | Rosalind Coward | |
Publishing | Mary Masters | She had been writing and gathering the material here for at least ten years. The volume was printed for the Author, and dedicated to Lord Burlington
(who subscribed for eight copies). Its publication was... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Hands | The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed
. It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies... |
Publishing | Mary Davys | MD
's draft of The Reform'd Coquet circulated before publication among Cambridge
undergraduates, who suggested improvements. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xxi |
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 |
Publishing | Jane Barker | The material in the volume was later revised as the third part of the Magdalen Manuscript. The publisher advertised the volume in December 1687, using JB
's name. This is the only instance of his... |
Publishing | Zadie Smith | ZS
placed a story, The Waiter's Wife, in Granta, Cambridge University
's literary magazine and a venue for many young writers who later became widely known. She continued to publish in Granta after this. Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan. 170 Smith, Zadie. “Granta 67. Zadie Smith. The Waiter’s Wife”. Granta. |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | |
Reception | Q. D. Leavis | However, an early and strongly condemnatory review appeared from F. L. Lucas
of King's College
. Lucas argued that QDL
's élitist, ineffective scholarship idealized both pre-industrial literacy and contemporary highbrow culture. To inform one's... |
Reception | Jane Ellen Harrison | JEH
received some praise for her vivid writing, but was attacked for what critics saw as her comparative ignorance of philology and etymology and weakness in her evidence. In what her biographer Annabel Robinson
identifies... |
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