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Amy Levy

Amy Judith Levy (10 November 1861 – 9 September 1889) however, her obituary and tombstone indicate that her actual date of death was 9 September.}} was an English essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her literary gifts; her experience as the second Jewish woman at Cambridge University, and as the first Jewish student at Newnham College, Cambridge; her feminist positions; her friendships with others living what came later to be called a "New Woman" life, some of whom were lesbians; and her relationships with both women and men in literary and politically activist circles in London during the 1880s. Provided by Wikipedia