10 Facts About Amy Levy

Amy Judith Levy was a British 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.

Amy Levy was born in Clapham, an affluent district of London, on 10 November 1861, to Lewis and Isobel Amy Levy.

Amy Levy's 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.

Amy Levy showed an interest in literature from an early age.

Amy Levy was the first Jewish student at Newnham when she arrived in 1879 but left before her final year without taking her degree.

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Amy Levy wrote stories, essays, and poems for popular or literary periodicals; the stories "Cohen of Trinity" and "Wise in Their Generation", both published in Oscar Wilde's magazine The Woman's World, are among her most notable.

In 1886, Amy Levy began writing a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for The Jewish Chronicle, including The Ghetto at Florence, The Jew in Fiction, Jewish Humour, and Jewish Children.

Amy Levy remains a topic of discussion amongst scholars in terms of whether or not she is to be considered a Victorian Lesbian writer.

Amy Levy's had sent several poems to her friend Violet Paget, known as Vernon Lee, confessing her love.

Amy Levy experienced episodes of major depression from an early age.