F. R. 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...

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.

F. R. Leavis continued to be productive until his eighty-second year, when he began to experience black-outs. Despite her own fragile health, QDL was her husband's primary caregiver (with some help from their daughter Kate)...

Q. D. and F. R. Leavis moved to their last home, 12 Bulstrode Gardens in Cambridge.

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...

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...

In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW 's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite student of English literature. The revised form considers the impact of feminism, socialism, and changing concepts of...