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Q.D. Leavis (1906–1981)

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  • Jane Eyre (Editor, some editions) 29,769 copies, 449 reviews
  • Silas Marner (Introduction, some editions) 5,146 copies, 51 reviews
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Leavis, Queenie Dorothy
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Date of birth
1906-12-07
Date of death
1981-03-17
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female
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UK
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Latymer School
Cambridge University (Girton College)
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literary critic
essayist
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Leavis, F.R. (husband)
Roth, Leonard (brother)
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Queenie Dorothy Roth married F.R. Leavis in 1929 -- she had been his student at Cambridge. She worked independently but they also wrote numerous works together. She also contributed to the journal Scrutiny founded by F.R. in 1932. Her essays on Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and other women writers were published posthumously.
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