The first words of her title are quoted from a passage in Pope
's Dunciad which is, to put it mildly, unfriendly to the notion that a good poet might possibly be of the female...
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).
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
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Instructor
Germaine Greer
When she told her father about the scholarship he pressed a five-pound note into her hand.
Greer, Germaine. Daddy, We Hardly Knew You. Penguin, 1990.
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Her first intention was to take a second BA, as was not uncommon then for students coming to...
Occupation
Q. D. Leavis
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...