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), Citation1935 (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, Citation1995.
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.