Her time in Dresden crystallized her mixed feelings about the practice of her religion
. Visiting the synagogue (for Yom Kippur) disgusted her: she said that German Jews made her feel anti-semitic.
Pullen, Christine. The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy. Kingston University Press, 2010.
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Zion unventilated...
Family and Intimate relationships
Amy Levy
AL
's biographer Linda Hunt Beckman
believes that AL
fell in love once more in her life, and that the most likely person to have been her beloved was her friend Dorothy Blomfield
. Levy...
Literary responses
Amy Levy
AL
's biographer Linda Hunt Beckman
calls this story a masterpiece.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
186
Textual Features
Amy Levy
Another poem, on the death of a commonplace person presumed male, says he will never again ask for bread, get a stone instead, / Never pretend that the stone is bread.
qtd. in
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
102-3
The reference is...
Textual Production
Amy Levy
Some of AL
's letters and other papers were burned by her family. The rest, privately owned, did not become available to scholars until they were sold at Sotheby
's in 1990. A fully annotated...
Textual Production
Amy Levy
During her time at Newnham
, AL
wrote several stories; her biographer, Linda Hunt Beckman
, thinks Euphemia, the only one published, is one of the weaker ones. Lallie and The Doctor each contrasts...
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Texts
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.