F. R. 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.

QDL and her husband, F. R. Leavis , collaborated on critical projects throughout their careers. He called her my indispensable and only effective collaborator for contributions bothher credited and uncredited.

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.

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...

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.

As co-editor, contributor (of nearly fifty pieces), and administrator, QDL was one of the dominant forces behind Scrutiny, the literary journal founded by her husband , herself, and their students, and based at Cambridge

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...

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...