Frank Laurence Lucas

EBCJ published another novel, Helen & Felicia, dedicating it to her husband by his name and initials, with four lines from Edna St Vincent Millay .

EBCJ published her third novel, The Wedgwood Medallion, dedicated to someone named Lucas, who may be her husband .

Though both husband and wife were to influential, F. R. Leavis became one of the leading literary critics of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and teacher, he was known for his uncompromising, exclusive, often...

EBCJ married Cambridge scholar F. L. Lucas (always known as Peter), a Fellow of King's College who was making a name for himself as a literary critic. The wedding took place at the registry...

EBCJ separated from her husband, F. L. (Peter) Lucas , from whom she was later divorced.

Then, during the years 1924-7, EJ studied at Newnham College, Cambridge . She realised the value of this education at the time, but not so profoundly as she did later. She received her BA...

However, an early and strongly condemnatory review appeared from F. L. Lucas of King's College . Lucas argued that QDL 's élitist, ineffective scholarship idealized both pre-industrial literacy and contemporary highbrow culture. To inform one's...

This suggests that QDL had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge (through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...

Under her editorship the list included Frances Cornford , Joan Adeney Easdale , Ida Graves , Vita Sackville-West , Margaret Thomas (as editor), Julian Bell , Cecil Day-Lewis , John Lehmann , F. L. Lucas