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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... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | 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... |
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... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | |
Literary responses | Q. D. Leavis | Much later estimates continued to assimilate Q. D.'s work to that of F. R., and to repeat the original Lucas estimate. Near the end of QDL
's life, Francis Mulhern
in The Moment of "Scrutiny"... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | Working again through the British Council
, Q. D.
and F. R. Leavis
lectured on Austen
, Eliot
, and Yeats
in Rome, Milan, Padua, and Bologna. Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth. 283-4 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
and her husband, F. R. Leavis
, collaborated on critical projects throughout their careers. He called her my indispensable and only effective collaborator MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 309-10 |
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 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | Francis Mulhern
in The Moment of "Scrutiny", 1979, argued that QDL
's Fiction and the Reading Public was the logical successor of F. R. Leavis
's first, slim publication, Mass Civilization and Minority Culture... |
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... |