Dickens the Novelist

by F. R. Leavis

  Queenie Leavis (née Roth) was born in 1990 and died in 1982. She and F. R. Leavis established a personal and intellectual partnership in 1929 that endured until his death. An editor of Scrutiny until its closure in 1953, her particular interests were in the development of the novel in the English language and in the sociology of reading and publication. The couple had two sons and a daughter.

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  ISBN 978–0–571–28707–9