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Textual Features | Michelene Wandor | In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW
's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite
student of English literature. Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender</span> by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 13 , No. 1, pp. 125-6. 125 |
Reception | Dylan Thomas | Though Thomas's reputation has often been assailed (by the Movement poets, by F. R. Leavis
, by Welsh nationalists), he now rests in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; a first edition of Under Milk... |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | This book drew accusations of plagiarism from F. R. Leavis
, another critic with strong views as to what was valuable or otherwise in literature, but one whom ES
despised. Her obituarist later noted that... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | F. R. Leavis
and Denys Thompson
issued the textbook Culture and Environment: The Training of Critical Awareness—later judged so much indebted to QDLthat it is surprising her name did not appear on the title-page. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 208 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | In the year that F. R. Leavis
issued his canonical treatment of canon development, The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, QDL
called it in a letter my husband's, or rather our... |
Reception | Q. D. Leavis | With some minor exceptions, interactions between QDL
and Virginia Woolf
were hostile. Both Leavises regularly took up an anti-Bloomsbury stance in their lecturing and writing. After reading QDL
's review, Woolf remarked in her... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | F. R. Leavis
published his essay collection The Common Pursuit (dedicated to QDL
). He wrote that she had helped him with the selection and arrangement of the essays. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2613 (29 February 1952): 149 Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth. 79 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | After F. R. Leavis's death in 1978, QDL
began to prepare a short memoir on him, to be included in an upcoming collection of his essays. She wrote notes and sketches for this, but left... |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
and F. R. Leavis
published their joint collection of literary criticism, Lectures in America. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1970 Kinch, M. B. et al. F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland. 16 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | Many studies of the Leavises' careers have been published, both during and after their lifetimes. These have concentrated mainly on F. R. Leavis
, but Ian MacKillop
in 1995 broke new ground in attention to QDL
. |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | To mark the centenary of Charles Dickens
's death, QDL
and F. R. Leavis
published Dickens: The Novelist, their reassessment of his cultural significance, dedicated by each to the other. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 369, 372 |
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... |
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... |
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. 85-6, 100 |