‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde

The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/13/archives-amy-levy-queer-jewish-writer-admired-by-oscar-wilde-unsealed

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All day we have plied the oar; all day
Eager and keen have said our say
On life and death, on love and art,
On good or ill at Nature's heart.
Now, grown so tired, we scarce can lift
The lazy oars, but onward drift.
And the silence is only stirred
Here and there by a broken word.

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