Amy Levy

The Romance of a Shop (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When their father's death leaves the Lorimer sisters in financial straits, they decide to open a photography business to support themselves. As Lucy begins an apprenticeship with a local photographer, her sisters work hard on preparing their own studio. Battling prejudice and economic pressures, the Lorimers find hope in perseverance. The Romance of a Shop is a novel by Amy Levy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513297316
• Artikelnr.: 62865030

Autorenporträt

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.