Amy levy biography

Amy Judith Levy (10 November 1861 – 9 September 1889) was an English essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her literary gifts; her experience as.
Amy Levy was born in London on November 10, 1861, the second of seven children in a middle-class Jewish family.
Novelist, essayist, and poet Amy Levy was a popular and successful writer of the late nineteenth century.

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Poetry

Amy Levy has been identified by Sally Ledger as a “New Woman poet with Sapphic interests.” (126) She published an impressive amount of poetry which mostly deals with feminist issues and is deeply rooted in urban milieu. Her poetry is distinguished by a variety of forms and themes, including dramatic monologue and intense confessional lyrics, which depict a female persona overcome with a brooding pessimism about the nature of human existence and human relations. Some of her lyric poems were influenced by the poetry of Heinrich Heine and German Romanticism. They speak about disappointed love and suicide thoughts.

Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman contend that “It was Levy’s poetry rather than her fiction, however, that initially led to her categorisation as a New Woman”. (10) In 1881, Levy, still a student at Newnham, published Xantippe and Other Verse. The title poem, “Xantippe” is considered by many critics as Levy’s most significant poetic achievement, which places her among the New Woman poets. The form of the poem is a dramatic m

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Amy Levy

English essayist, poet and novelist (1861–1889)

Amy Judith Levy (10 November 1861 – 9 September 1889)^{[note 1]} was an English essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her literary gifts; her experience as the second Jewish woman at Cambridge University, and as the first Jewish student at Newnham College, Cambridge; her feminist positions; her friendships with others living what came later to be called a "New Woman" life, some of whom were lesbians; and her relationships with both women and men in literary and politically activist circles in London during the 1880s.

Biography

Early life and education

Levy was born in Clapham, an affluent district of London, on 10 November 1861, to Lewis and Isobel Levy.^[4] She was the second of seven children born into a Jewish family with a "casual attitude toward religious observance",^[5]^: 13 who sometimes attended a Reform synagogue in Upper Berkeley Street,^[5]^: 17 the West London Synagogue. As an adult, Levy continued to ident

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Levy, Amy

LEVY, AMY (1861–1889), poetess and novelist, second daughter of Mr. Lewis Levy, by his wife Isabelle [Levin], was born at Clapham on 10 Nov. 1861. Her parents were of the Jewish faith. She was educated at Brighton, and afterwards at Newnham College, Cambridge. She early showed decided talent, especially for poetry, pieces afterwards thought worthy of preservation having been written in her thirteenth year. In 1881 a small pamphlet of verse from her pen, ‘Xantippe and other poems,’ was printed at Cambridge. Most of the contents were subsequently incorporated with her second publication, ‘A Minor Poet and other Verse,’ 1884. ‘Xantippe’ is in many respects her most powerful production, exhibiting a passionate rhetoric and a keen, piercing dialectic, exceedingly remarkable in so young a writer. It is a defence of Socrates's maligned wife, from the woman's point of view, full of tragic pathos, and only short of complete success from its frequent reproduction of the manner of both the Brownings. The same may be said of ‘A