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Cultural formation | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
lived all of her life in London and Cambridge. Herself of Jewish, Polish, and German heritage, she was intensely concerned with English writers, readers, and notions of Englishness. She had a lasting... |
Cultural formation | Q. D. Leavis | At this time Queenie was a member of the JewishStudents' Society
. She ate kosher food sent from home, and with her friend Sophie Baron
, she attended services at the Thompson's Lane synagogue. Her... |
Education | Maggie Gee | MG
gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge
by Queenie Leavis
, whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats
in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis |
Education | Angela Carter | She said later that she chose medieval literature because she wanted freedom from the dictates of F. R. Leavis
, freedom to read the modernists without developing critical ideas about them. Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 55 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | At the beginning of her last year as an undergraduate, Queenie Roth (later QDL
) met her future husband, Cambridge don and critic F. R. Leavis
, at a Girton College
tea. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995. 100 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | Q. D. Roth
and F. R. Leavis
were married, having been engaged since February of this year. Their first of several homes, christened The Criticastery, was in Leys Road, Cambridge. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995. 104, 107-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
delivered her first child, a son named Ralph
. She and F. R. Leavis
had two other children: Katharine Laura
, born in September 1939, and Lawrence Robin
, born in December 1944. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995. 152, 222 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | F. R. Leavis
continued to be productive until his eighty-second year, when he began to experience black-outs. Despite her own fragile health, QDL
was her husband's primary caregiver (with some help from their daughter Kate)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under F. R. Leavis |
Friends, Associates | Q. D. Leavis | Two of her contemporaries as undergraduates were Muriel Bradbrook
(at Girton) and William Empson
(whom her future husband, F. R. Leavis
, came to admire especially). MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995. 85-6, 100 |
Instructor | Elizabeth Jenkins | Then, during the years 1924-7, EJ
studied at Newnham College, Cambridge
. She realised the value of this education at the time, but not so profoundly as she did later. qtd. in Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004. 18 |
Instructor | A. S. Byatt | At Cambridge she was influenced by F. R. Leavis
. Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. A.S. Byatt. Twayne, 1996. 4 |
Instructor | Margaret Drabble | One of her teachers was F. R. Leavis
. Creighton, Joanne V. Margaret Drabble. Methuen, 1985. 25 Hattersley, Roy. “The Darling of Hampstead”. The Guardian, 26 June 1999, pp. 6-7. 6 Drabble, Margaret. “1960s”. The Guardian, 26 May 2007, pp. Weekend 25 - 31. 28 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Q. D. Leavis | This book was conceptualized as a sequel to the dissertation of her husband F. R. Leavis
, completed in 1924, The Relationship of Journalism to Literature: Studied in the Rise and Earlier Development of the... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Early twentieth-century critics represented EG
as a thoroughly domestic and womanly woman—Lord David Cecil
in Early Victorian Novelists described her as the typical Victorian woman: gentle, domestic, tactful, unintellectual, prone to tears, easily... |