F. R. 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...

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.

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...

QDL and F. R. Leavis published their joint collection of literary criticism, Lectures in America.

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 .

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.

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...

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...

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).

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...

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.

QDL spent most of her Amy Mary Preston Read scholarship money establishing the journal Scrutiny, in conjunction with her husband . She worked as a contributor and editor from the journal's inception in May...

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.

By 1950, QDL was feeling the strain of drudging for [her] husband and Scrutiny, leaving her no time for [her] own purposes. After the journal ended in 1953, she continued to collaborate with...

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.