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  2. Q. D. Leavis - Wikipedia

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    Leavis attended Latymer School, Edmonton, and in 1925 won a scholarship to study English at Girton College, Cambridge. [2] [3] She graduated in 1928 with a first-class degree with distinction in the English tripos. [2] Her PhD thesis, carried out under the supervision of I. A. Richards, became the book Fiction and the Reading Public (1932).

  3. F. R. Leavis - Wikipedia

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    Frank Raymond "F. R." Leavis CH (/ ˈ l iː v ɪ s / LEE-vis; 14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978) was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge, and later at the University of York.

  4. Understood Betsy - Wikipedia

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    The story tells of Elizabeth Ann, a 9-year-old orphan girl who goes from a sheltered existence with her father's aunt Harriet and cousin Frances in the city, to living on a Vermont farm with her mother's family, the Putneys, whose child-rearing practices had always seemed suspect to Harriet and her daughter.

  5. A Clergyman's Daughter - Wikipedia

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    Rev. Charles Hare – Dorothy's father, he is a self-centred clergyman whose spirituality and charity exist only in formal terms. He believes that tradesmen and the working class are beneath him, and refuses to pay them. He has some money, albeit dwindling, in stocks, and accumulates gargantuan debts.

  6. Ezra Pound - Wikipedia

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    At last provided for, he was allowed to read, write, and receive visitors, including Dorothy for several hours a day. [352] In October 1946 Dorothy had been placed in charge of his "person and property".) [ 353 ] His room had a typewriter, floor-to-ceiling book shelves, and bits of paper hanging on string from the ceiling with ideas for The ...

  7. The Movement (literature) - Wikipedia

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    The group's objective was to prove the importance of traditional English poetry, over the American-led innovations of modernist poetry. The members of the Movement were not anti-modernity but they were opposed to modernist literature , which was reflected in the Englishness of their poetry.

  8. Happy End (musical) - Wikipedia

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    After the success of Weill and Brecht's previous collaboration, The Threepenny Opera, the duo devised this musical, written by Hauptmann under the pseudonym of Dorothy Lane. Hauptmann's sources included, among others, Major Barbara. [1] The première took place in Berlin on 2 September 1929. [2]

  9. Dorothy Day - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Day, ed. Phyllis Zagano (2002) Dorothy Day: In My Own Words; Dorothy Day, ed. Patrick Jordan (2002), Dorothy Day: Writings from Commonweal [1929–1973], Liturgical Press; Dorothy Day, ed. Robert Ellsberg (2005) Dorothy Day, Selected Writings; Dorothy Day, ed. Robert Ellsberg, (2008) The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day