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Legal name: Leavis, Queenie Dorothy
Birthdate: 1906-12-07
Date of death: 1981-03-17
Gender: female
Education: Latymer School
University of Cambridge (Girton College)
Occupations: literary critic
essayist
Organizations: Cambridge University (teacher)
Scrutiny (contributor)
Relationships: Leavis, F. R. (spouse)
Roth, Leonard (brother)
Short biography: 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.
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Edmonton, London, England, UK
Places of residence: Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK
Associated Place (for map): England, UK

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Fiction and the Reading Public by Q. D. Leavis

In her study, Q.D. Leavis investigates what has happened to public taste in the last three centuries and what effect this has had both on the life of the nation and the quality of living for the individual.

Nov 13, 2005