Amy Levy

Gebundenes Buch

Miss Meredith

Beschreibung

Elsie Meredith is an unremarkable young woman, a middle child whose prospects in England pale in comparison to those of her sisters'. Wary of following the path of her long-suffering mother, Elsie accepts a position as governess for the family of the Marchesa Brogi in Pisa. Miss Meredith is a novel by Amy Levy.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 73
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888971567
• Artikelnr.: 68585428