The Romance of a Shop is an early "New Woman" novel about four
sisters, who decide to establish their own photography business and
their own home in central London after their father's death and
their loss of financial security. In this novel, Amy Levy examines
both the opportunities and dangers of urban experience for women in
the late nineteenth century who pursue independent work rather than
follow the established paths of domestic service. By outfitting her
characters as photographers, Levy emphasizes the importance of the
gendered gaze in this narrative of the modern city. This Broadview
edition prints for the first time since the 1880s Levy's essay on
Christina Rossetti and a short story set in North London, both
published in Oscar Wilde's magazine The Woman's World. Other
appendices include poetry by Levy, Michael Field, Dollie Radford,
and A. Mary F. Robinson, and essays on Victorian photography,
literary realism, "the woman question" at the end of the nineteenth
century, and the plight of women working in London.
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