Amy Levy
Amy Levy
Amy Levy (1861-89), one of seven brothers and sisters, went to Brighton High School, and from 1879-81 was the first Jewish student at Newnham College, Cambridge; she published Xantippe, poems in defence of Socrates’ maligned wife, when she was 20. After travelling abroad, she lived at the family home in Bloomsbury, becoming part of a group of emancipated women that included Olive Schreiner, Beatrice Webb and Eleanor Marx who met daily at the British Museum Reading Room. As well as a prolific output of poems, essays and articles, she wrote The Romance of a Shop (1888), about four sisters earning their living; and Reuben Sachs (also 1888), both a feminist plea and a satire on the materialism of late-Victorian Jews, much praised by Oscar Wilde. Amy Levy’s tendency to melancholy, her growing deafness, and the simplistic condemnation of her novel as anti-semitic by some, may have contributed to her suicide when she was only 27.
List of resources about Amy Levy
- The Woman Who Dared: a biography of Amy Levy by Christine Pullen (2010)
Hop, Step and Jump
Despised and Rejected (Classic edition)
The Persephone Pin
The Fortnight in September (audiobook)
Crooked Cross (audiobook)
The Expendable Man (Classic edition)
Crooked Cross
High Wages (audiobook)
Little Boy Lost (audiobook)
High Wages (Classic edition)
Mrs Miniver
They Were Sisters (audiobook)
William - An Englishman (audiobook)
Diary of a Provincial Bookshop
William – an Englishman (Classic edition)
The Third Persephone Book of Short Stories
Sofia Petrovna
Out of the Window
One Afternoon
Two Cheers for Democracy
The Other Day
The Waters under the Earth
As It Was
A Well Full of Leaves
Miss Buncle’s Book (Classic edition)
They Were Sisters (Classic edition)
The Deepening Stream
The Rector's Daughter
The Making of a Marchioness (audiobook)
Someone at a Distance (audiobook)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (audiobook)
Midsummer Night in the Workhouse (audiobook)
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven (audiobook)
The Other Elizabeth Taylor
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (audiobook)
Random Commentary
The New Magdalen
The Persephone Box Set
English Climate: Wartime Stories
The Oppermanns
One Woman's Year
A Room of One's Own
Expiation
The Persephone Catalogue
The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories
Milton Place
National Provincial
The Call
Tory Heaven
Young Anne
Despised and Rejected
The Fortnight in September (Classic edition)
Guard Your Daughters
The Journey Home and Other Stories
Emmeline
The Persephone Napkin
Earth and High Heaven
Effi Briest
Madame Solario
Long Live Great Bardfield
Every Good Deed and Other Stories
The Godwits Fly
A Lady and Her Husband
Maman, What Are We Called Now?
Gardeners’ Choice
Greengates
Vain Shadow
London War Notes
The World that was Ours (Classic edition)
The Making of a Marchioness (Classic edition)
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (Classic edition)
Little Boy Lost (Classic edition)
Kitchen Essays (Classic edition)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Classic edition)
Saplings (Classic edition)
Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes (Classic edition)
The Home-Maker (Classic edition)
Someone at a Distance (Classic edition)
The Persephone Book Token
The Persephone Bag
Mariana (Classic edition)
Because of the Lockwoods
The Country Life Cookery Book
The Happy Tree
Wilfred and Eileen
Into the Whirlwind
Diary of a Provincial Lady
The Two Mrs Abbotts
The Squire
The Persephone Notebook
On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940–46
The World that was Ours
To Bed With Grand Music
High Wages
Dimanche and Other Stories
A New System of Domestic Cookery
Making Conversation
Still Missing
The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow
Amours de Voyage
Miss Buncle’s Book
The Country Housewife’s Book
Round About a Pound a Week
The Winds of Heaven
A Very Great Profession
Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting
Miss Buncle Married
The Crowded Street
Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
The Closed Door and Other Stories
The Young Pretenders
The Sack of Bath
House-Bound
No Surrender
The Shuttle
Plats du Jour
Greenbanks
Journal
Dinners for Beginners
The Expendable Man
The Fortnight in September
Harriet
Gardener’s Nightcap
Alas, Poor Lady
The Woman Novelist and Other Stories
Princes in the Land
How To Run Your Home Without Help
A London Child of the 1870s
Doreen
There Were No Windows
Hetty Dorval
The Hopkins Manuscript
They Were Sisters
Flush
They Can’t Ration These
Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary
The Village
Operation Heartbreak
Bricks and Mortar
The Casino
The New House
Miss Ranskill Comes Home
Good Food on the Aga
Tea with Mr Rochester
The Wise Virgins
The Blank Wall
Hostages to Fortune
The Priory
Manja
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
The Runaway
Lettice Delmer
Greenery Street
Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
A Writer’s Diary
Patience
The Far Cry
The Carlyles at Home
A House in the Country
Kitchen Essays
The Making of a Marchioness
Little Boy Lost
The Children who Lived in a Barn
Brook Evans
The Montana Stories
Family Roundabout
Reuben Sachs
Consider the Years
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
A Woman’s Place: 1910–75
They Knew Mr Knight
Every Eye
Marjory Fleming
Saplings
Tell It to a Stranger
Farewell Leicester Square
Consequences
It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty
Julian Grenfell
Good Things in England
Few Eggs and No Oranges
Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
The Home-Maker
The Persephone Book of Short Stories
Heat Lightning
The Exiles Return
The Victorian Chaise-longue
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43
Fidelity
Someone at a Distance
Mariana
William – an Englishman
Persephone Book Subscription
Miss Pettigrew postcard: 'my hair is mouse coloured'
Miss Pettigrew postcard: 'such ardent kisses'
The Persephone Pamphlet
Persephone Endpapers
The Persephone Apron
Persephone Book Envelope
The Persephone Dinner Napkin
Dorothy Whipple postcard
The Persephone Umbrella
The Persephone Map
Bloomsbury Pamphlets
Persephone Bookmarks
Edgar Buildings postcard
The Persephone Digital Book Token
Christmas Persephone Day Welcome Drinks
Endpapers Workshop
Our Favourite Persephone Books
Christmas in Persephone Books
Talk: The Persephone Post Advent Calendar
Film screening: ‘The Home-Maker’
Salon Music Concert:
