Leavis, Q.D. (1906–1981)
Leavis, Q.D. (1906–1981)
British literary critic. Name variations: Queenie Dorothy Leavis. Born Queenie Dorothy Roth, Dec 7, 1906, in London, England; died Mar 17, 1981, in Cambridge, England; educated at Girton College, Cambridge; m. F.R. Leavis (literary critic), 1929 (died 1978).
With husband, was coeditor of quarterly review Scrutiny and wrote Lectures in America (1969) and Dickens the Novelist (1970); also wrote Fiction and the Reading Public (1932) and a collection of essays on women writers, The Collected Essays, which were published posthumously (1983).
See also M.B. Kinch, F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography (1989).
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