Letter: Cambridge University may not have always welcomed female academics, but Laura Riding’s work inspired an era of new criticism, writes Dr Mark Jacobs
Kathryn Hughes, reviewing Terry Eagleton’s book Critical Revolutionaries , says, “Cambridge, the university with which they were all connected, was not particularly welcoming to female academics”, the “they” being TS Eliot, William Empson, FR Leavis and Raymond Williams.
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