MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
130, 132
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
defended her Cambridge
dissertation, which was supervised by I. A. Richards
, with E. M. Forster
as external advisor. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995. 130, 132 “Obituary: Mrs. Q.D. Leavis”. Times, p. 16. 16 |
Education | Zadie Smith | ZS
went to Malorees Junior School and then to Hampstead Comprehensive
. Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 27 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge
friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen
and a member of the Apostles
. A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first... |
Fictionalization | Emily Spender | E. M. Forster
used ES
as a source for Miss Lavish, a woman writer of romances who appears in A Room With a View, 1908. The basis of his portrait is the impression made... |
Fictionalization | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
inspired a number of creative portraits by her contemporaries during the earlier part of her career. Probably the best-known is the character of Mrs Failing in E. M. Forster
's novel The Longest Journey... |
Fictionalization | Emily Spender | ES
was well-known enough in Italy for copies of this book to be supplied to officers' mess-rooms of the Italian Army as a special compliment to the authoress. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
met E. M. Forster
after writing, the year after its publication, to congratulate him on A Room with a View. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 321 |
Friends, Associates | Sara Jeannette Duncan | E. M. Forster
wrote in a letter that Mrs Cotes
[Sara Jeanette Duncan] was clever and odd—nice to talk to alone, but at times the Social Manner descended like a pall. Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983. 288-9 |
Friends, Associates | Sara Jeannette Duncan | SJD
also met novelist E. M. Forster
who came to India in 1912 two years after the publication of Howard's End. Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983. 286 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | At Nassenheide, her home in Germany, EA
employed the first of a series of Cambridge
tutors for her children, who famously included future writers E. M. Forster
and Hugh Walpole
. Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986. 96, 102, 120 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth von Arnim | Of the tutors Charles Erskine Stuart
became her admirer; E. M. Forster
discussed novel-writing with her; and Hugh Walpole
became her life-long friend. She invited Forster to Nassenheide on the recommendation of her nephew Sydney Waterlow |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Bridge | AB
's correspondents included Ka Arnold-Foster
, John Betjeman
, E. M. Forster
, Margaret Haig Rhondda
, Margaret Irwin
, John Masefield
, Naomi Mitchison
, I. A. Richards
, Vita Sackville-West
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell
, whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson
, a political mentor Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. 128 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | VW
heard E. M. Forster
's talk on The Feminine Note in Literature at the Friday Club
. His novel Howards End had appeared the previous October. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 271 |