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Miss Meredith

Autor Amy Levy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2019
Amy Judith Levy (1861-89) was a British essayist, poet and novelist who was the first Jewish woman to attend Cambridge University. She is remembered for her literary gifts and as a pioneering female student at Newnham College with strongly held feminist views, who went on to become what was termed a "New Woman," forming relationships with both men and women in the literary and politically activist circles of London during the 1880s. She was the second of seven children born into a Jewish family and continued to identify herself as Jewish in adulthood, writing for The Jewish Chronicle. Her family was supportive of women's education and encouraged her literary interests but although she took up her studies at Newnham in 1879, she left before her final year without taking her exams. Whilst travelling in Florence in 1886, Levy met Vernon Lee, a fiction writer and literary theorist six years her senior, and fell in love with her. Both women went on to explore the themes of sapphic love in their works. Her first novel The Romance of a Shop (1888) is regarded as an early "New Woman" work depicting the difficulties faced by four sisters running a business. Levy suffered from depression throughout her life and committed suicide shortly before her 28th birthday. This short novel was first published in 1889.
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ISBN-13: 9781406822663
ISBN-10: 1406822663
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Ediția:Reprint of an E
Editura: Echo Library

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Amy Levy (1861-1889) was a British poet and novelist. Born in Clapham, London to a Jewish family, she was the second oldest of seven children. Levy developed a passion for literature in her youth, writing a critique of Elizabeth Barrett Browning¿s Aurora Leigh and publishing her first poem by the age of fourteen. After excelling at Brighton and Hove High School, Levy became the first Jewish student at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied for several years without completing her degree. Around this time, she befriended such feminist intellectuals as Clementina Black, Ellen Wordsworth Darwin, Eleanor Marx, and Olive Schreiner. As a so-called ¿New Woman¿ and lesbian, much of Levy¿s literary work explores the concerns of nineteenth century feminism. Levy was a romantic partner of Violet Paget, a British storyteller and scholar of Aestheticism who wrote using the pseudonym Vernon Lee. Her first novel, The Romance of a Shop (1888), is powerful story of sisterhood and perseverance in the face of poverty and marginalization. Levy is also known for such poetry collections as A Minor Poet and Other Verse (1884) and A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse (1889). At the age of 27, after a lifetime of depression exacerbated by relationship trouble and her increasing deafness, Levy committed suicide at her parents¿ home in Endsleigh Gardens.