Tuesday, February 01, 2011

News at Eleven: [Amy] Levy made strong emotional attachments

to women, which often went unreciprocated. Pullen explores these fully but her investigation of Amy's relationship to Professor Karl Pearson is most fresh and significant. Pearson's callous behaviour, not only towards Amy, but also towards many of the women who were attached to him, may well have precipitated her suicide; an absurd waste, even though she left behind an important body of work.

from The Jewish Chronicle: The woman who dared: A biography of Amy Levy

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