Leicester University Press

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Q. D. Leavis
The Times Literary Supplement review judged that QDLrightly reverses Oliphant's own despairing estimate of her literary achievement, and that she backed her high opinion with sound argument—even though it backtracked by suggesting that her...
Publishing Susanna Watts
SW 's authorship of this work was not known in her lifetime. This was a member of a very new genre: it represented only the third or fourth guidebook in English about a non-resort location...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
QDL wrote the introduction to a new edition of Margaret Oliphant 's Autobiography and Letters, edited by Oliphant's cousin Annie Walker (Mrs Harry Coghill) and published by Leicester University Press .
Keating, Peter John. “A Pen under Pressure”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3770, 7 June 1974, p. 616.
616
Leavis, Q. D. Collected Essays. Editor Singh, G., Cambridge University Press, 1983–1989, 3 vols.
3: vii

Timeline

1957: Leicester University Press was founded in...

Writing climate item

1957

Leicester University Press was founded in the same year that the university was granted a charter of independence.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
191

Texts

Black, Alistair. A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Political Contexts, 1850-1914. Leicester University Press, 1996.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria et al. “Two Voyages to Sierra Leone”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 45-168.
Leavis, Q. D., and Margaret Oliphant. “Introduction”. Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, edited by Annie Louisa Walker and Annie Louisa Walker, Leicester University Press, 1974, pp. 9-34.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
Park, Sowon S. “’Doing Justice to the Real Girl’: The Women Writers’ Suffrage League”. A Suffrage Reader: Charting Directions in British Suffrage History, edited by Claire Eustance et al., Leicester University Press, 2000.
Parker, Mary Ann et al. “A Voyage Round the World”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 169-25.
Peterson, William S. Victorian Heretic. Leicester University Press, 1976.
Simmons, Jack, and Susanna Watts. “Introduction”. A Walk through Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1967, p. vii - xiii.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
Watts, Susanna. A Walk through Leicester. Third Edition, Leicester University Press, 1967.