Amy Levy

eBook, ePUB

Miss Meredith (eBook, ePUB)

With a Biography by Richard Garnett

Beschreibung

"Miss Meredith" is an 1889 novel by Amy Levy. A romantic novel set in Pisa, Italy, "Miss Meredith" is a must read for classic romantic fiction fans. Amy Judith Levy (1861-1889) was a British poet, novelist, and essayist. She was notably the first Jewish woman to study at Cambridge university, and she became well-known for her feminist positions as well as her romantic relationships with both male and female political and literature figures. Contents include: "A Family of Four", "A Great Event", "New and Strange Experiences", "The New Governess and Her Pupil", "Making Friends", "Chapter Vimarchetti", "The Home-Coming of the Rebel", "An Italian Ball", "'What Has Happened to Me?'", "'As Good as Gold'", "'Will You Make Me Very Happy?'", "The Breaking of the Storm", etc. Other works by this author include: "Xantippe and Other Verse" (1881), "The Romance of a Shop" (1888), and "Reuben Sachs" (1888). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography of the author by Richard Garnett.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read Books Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 86
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781528791533
• Artikelnr.: 60720455