Hiatus Replay: Amy Levy — Reuben Sachs with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith

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We’re back January 30, 2024 with all new episodes.  Did you know there was a controversial, now-forgotten 1888 novel written in response to George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda by a writer who has been described as “the Jewish Jane Austen?” Until recently, neither did we. Join us as we talk with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith about author Amy Levy and her stunning, sardonic novel Reuben Sachs, which fan and friend Oscar Wilde deemed a classic. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 

Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy from Persephone Books

Oscar Wilde

Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith on Amy Levy and Ellen Wordsworth Darwin 

“Swotting Up” by Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith (TLS)

Cambridge Ladies’ Dining Society Blog

Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Nathalia Crane - Lost Ladies of Lit Episode 13

Brighton and Hove High School

Newnham College, Cambridge University

Amy Levy’s obituary by Oscar Wilde

Ellen Wordsworth Darwin

Cambridge in the Long by Amy Levy

Eleanor Marx

Vernon Lee/Violet Paget

The Jewish Chronicle

The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy

Julia Neuberger 

Emile Zola

Alphonse Daudet

Anthony Trollope

A Suppressed Cry by Victoria Glendinning

The Third Miss Symons by F.M. Mayor

The Rector’s Daughter by F.M. Mayor

Girton College, Cambridge University

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