Amy Levy

Amy Judith Levy was a British essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her literary gifts her experience as the first Jewish woman at Cambridge University and as a pioneering woman 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.

Levy was born in Clapham, an affluent district of London, on November 10, 1861, to Lewis and Isobel Levy. She was the second of seven children born into a Jewish family with a casual attitude toward religious observance who sometimes attended a Reform synagogue in Upper Berkeley Street. As an adult, Levy continued to identify herself as Jewish and wrote for The Jewish Chronicle.

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