F. R. Leavis

Margaret Drabble began work on her biography of AB (published in 1974) in a partisan spirit, because she felt Bennett was seriously undervalued. She was, she wrote, surprised to find she enjoyed and respected...

At Cambridge she was influenced by F. R. Leavis . He, she later said, was very proud of himself and sure that he was right and everybody else was wrong; but he was also...

ASB later found her own original work severe and Leavis ite.

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.

The reviews for this book were mixed. Amabel Williams-Ellis said in The Spectator that the poems showed a permeating sense of effort not to be young lady-ish.F. R. Leavis dismissed Parallaxas simple...

One of her teachers was F. R. Leavis . She continued acting as an undergraduate, primarily in tragic roles. At this time she hardly ever read a newspaper.

Ashton suggests that GE anticipated the case made in Theodor Herzl 's The Jewish State, 1896. The first Jewish readers of the novel were delighted and impressed both by GE 's deep knowledge and...

The critical tide did not turn (despite some acute criticism from Virginia Woolf , who called Middlemarchthe magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up...

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...

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

Almost all reviewers were baffled by GMH 's poetry at its first appearance, and chose to think of Bridges as indulging an eccentric personal loyalty. When the second edition was published in 1930, on the...

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. She received her BA...

On invitation from the British Council , Q. D. and F. R. Leavis visited Finland: F. R. lectured and Q. D. led seminars at the universities of Helsinki and Abo (the Swedish name of what...

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...

Q. D. and F. R. Leavis travelled to America, where they lectured at Cornell and Harvard .