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“The poetry of Christina Rossetti is essentially the poetry of a woman.”

Emphasising the distinctly feminine perspective Levy found in Rossetti’s work · Essay, The Poetry of Christina Rossetti

About Amy Levy

Amy Levy

10 November 1861–10 September 1889

Amy Judith Levy was born in Clapham, south London, on 10 November 1861, and died in London on 10 September 1889. In fewer than twenty-eight years she became one of the most distinctive writers of the late Victorian period: a poet of compressed feeling and formal intelligence, a novelist of urban and communal life, an…

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