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LEVY, AMY (1861–1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 519 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEVY, AMY (1861–1889) , See also:English poetess and novelist, second daughter of See also:Lewis Levy, was See also:born at Clapham on the loth of See also:November 1861, and was educated at Newnham See also:College, See also:Cambridge. She showed a precocious aptitude for See also:writing See also:verse of exceptional merit, and in 1884 she published a See also:volume of poems, A See also:Minor Poet and Other Verse, some of the pieces in which had already been printed at Cambridge with the See also:title Xantippe and Other Poems. The high level of this first publication was maintained in A See also:London See also:Plane See also:Tree and Other Poems, a collection of lyrics published in 1889, in which the prevailing See also:pessimism of the writer's temperament was conspicuous. She had already in 188$ tried her See also:hand at See also:prose fiction in The See also:Romance of a See also:Shop, which was followed by See also:Reuben See also:Sachs, a powerful novel. She committed See also:suicide on the loth of See also:September 1889.

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