"For one of Victorian literature's most distinctive voices, who was once hailed as a genius by Oscar Wilde, very little has been known about Amy Levy for more than a century. But audiences will now have the opportunity to become more deeply acquainted with a writer whose pioneering work explored women's independence, Jewish identity and same-sex desire. The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy's personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries."
"She wrote three poetry collections, three novels including Reuben Sachs and The Romance of a Shop numerous essays and a series of articles for the Jewish Chronicle. When she died by suicide in 1889, aged 27, she was recognised by her contemporaries as an exceptional talent, with Wilde writing her obituary and commending the sincerity, directness, and melancholy of her work."
The University of Cambridge acquired and unsealed Amy Levy's personal archive, comprising letters, draft manuscripts, photographs, diary entries, and press clippings. The collection preserves a coherent corpus of 19th-century papers that is rarely available and will inform scholarship on Levy's life, works, social circles, and mental health. Amy Levy was born in 1861 into a middle-class Jewish family in London and entered Newnham College in 1879 as one of Cambridge's earliest Jewish female students. She wrote three poetry collections, three novels including Reuben Sachs and The Romance of a Shop, essays, and Jewish Chronicle pieces before dying by suicide in 1889 at age 27.
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