The Romance of A Shop was fist published in 1888. Praised by Oscar
Wilde who thought it 'admirably done ... clever and full of quick
observation, ' her little novel seemed to herald a brilliant
career. The book is ostensibly the story of four young ladies who,
after the death of their father, decide to open a photographic
studio in the heart of London's bohemia (to the dismay of their
more priggish relatives). Like much of Levy's work, the novel is
concerned with the contradictions besetting the 'new' Victorian
woman and her quest for independence despite being constrained by
anachronistic social mores and conflicting values. Written just two
years before her tragic suicide, a few months short of her 28th
birthday, The Romance of A Shop, has a resonance that goes beyond
its apparent innocence, echoing an undertone of despair and hunger
for a liberation that, to Levy's misfortune, came only some years
afterwards.
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