Oscar Wilde adored her, calling the young writer \”a girl of genius,\” while modern critics, in their flippancy and an attempt to articulate who this virtually unknown Victorian author was, have coined Amy Levy the \”Jewish Sylvia Plath,\” referring to both her precocious talent and her early, tragic demise.In the past few years, there has been an uptick in interest in Levy\’s work, including the publication of a biography in 2000, a conference held in 2002 in London specifically on her work and scholarship tied to it and, most recently, the annotated editions of Levy\’s two novels, \”The Romance of a Shop\” and \”Reuben Sachs.\”