Amy Levy Quotes


Related Quotes

Amy Levy
Amy Levy
  • Born: November 10, 1861
  • Died: September 10, 1889
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet, Novelist

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.