- Romance of a Shop
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Amy Levy
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Praised by Oscar Wilde amongst other contemporaries, Amy Levy's first novel tells the story of the four Lorimer sisters, who decide to open their own photography business after the death of their father which has left them in poverty. The novel examines the opportunities and difficulties of urban life for the "New Woman" in the late nineteenth century. Not only was Levy unusual as a female novelist in this period, but she was also from an Anglo Jewish family.
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- Chapters
- Chapter 1, In the Beginning
- Chapter 2, Friends in Need
- Chapter 3, Ways and Means
- Chapter 4, Number Twenty B
- Chapter 5, This Working-Day World
- Chapter 6, To the Rescue
- Chapter 7, A New Customer
- Chapter 8, A Distinguished Person
- Chapter 9, Show Sunday
- Chapter 10, Summing Up
- Chapter 11, A Confidence
- Chapter 12, Gertrude Is Anxious
- Chapter 13, A Romance
- Chapter 14, Lucy
- Chapter 15, Cressida
- Chapter 16, A Wedding
- Chapter 17, A Special Edition
- Chapter 18, Phyllis
- Chapter 19, The Sycamores
- Chapter 20, In the Sick Room
- Chapter 21, The Last Act
- Chapter 22, Hope and a Friend
- Chapter 23, A Dismissal
- Chapter 24, At Last
- Epilogue
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