A Conversation About Q. D. Leavis

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Notes

¹Q. D. Leavis, ‘A glance backward, 1965’ in ed. G. Singh, Collected Essays 1: The Englishness of the English Novel, Cambridge University Press, 1983: 10.

²Q. D. Leavis, ‘Lady Novelists and the Lower Orders’, Scrutiny 4 (3), 1935 (on Mitchison, reprinted in Collected Essays, vol. 3); ‘Caterpillars of the Commonwealth, Unite!’ Scrutiny 7 (3) (on Woolf; uncollected).

³M. D. Bradbrook, ‘Queenie Leavis: the Dynamics of Rejection’, Cambridge Review, 20 November, 1981.

⁴Ian MacKillop, F. R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism, Allen Lane, 1995.

⁵Senior Wrangler: top mathematician of his year at Cambridge University.

⁶Elisabeth Montefiore, née Paton, 1919–1999.

⁷Perse School for Girls, Cambridge.

⁸ Scrutiny was reissued in full with a twentieth volume containing an index and F. R. Leavis's essay ‘Scrutiny: A Retrospect’ by Cambridge University Press in 1963.

⁹The Rt. Revd. Hugh Montefiore, 1920–2005. He was vicar of Great St Mary's, Cambridge, the University Church, 1963–1970.

¹⁰Perse School for Boys, Cambridge.